Gaza students with overseas university offers, scholarships remain trapped

Electricity was scarce and the bombs kept falling, but each evening, Mahmoud Aldaya left his family’s tent in a displacement camp in southern Gaza, in search of enough internet signal to submit his assignments.

Much of his university work was done remotely because Israel’s genocide had devastated Gaza’s higher education system. Despite the conditions, the 24-year-old finished at the top of his c...