Universities Slam Belgian Refusal to Evacuate Gaza Students
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Thirteen Palestinian students from Gaza received scholarships and visas in Belgium, but could not be evacuated from the sector, turning their case into a political dispute within the Government, amid resentment from Belgian universities.
Universities Slam Belgian Refusal to Evacuate Gaza Students
Belgium's top universities condemned on Monday the government's refusal to help 13 students from war-torn Gaza who received scholarships at Belgian universities reach the country. Brussels set aside plans to evacuate the Palestinian students last week in a case that has split the coalition government. The rectors of the European country's top 10 universities expressed their "dismay" at the move in a letter, accusing the administration of using t…
This situation of blockage which has lasted for months, already denounced by NGOs, has taken a political turn with the display in the open of the divergences within the coalition in power in Belgium. The Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs, the centrist Maxime Prévot, pleads to welcome the 13 student researchers. However, on Friday in the Council of Ministers, he met with the refusal of one of his coalition partners, the N-VA (Flemish Conservati…
'The moral compass of some government partners is lost,' rectors say
In a press release on Monday, ten rectors denounced the "unworthy political bargaining" which these students, having obtained scholarships, find in their eyes the victims.
The rectors of ten leading Belgian universities expressed their astonishment at the decision of the government in Brussels to abandon the plan to evacuate 13 Palestinian students from Gaza who received scholarships to study in this European country.
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