On Friday, Fobzu joined 14 UK NGOs to issue a joint statement responding to the US announcement to stop funding UNRWA, the UN agency established to support Palestinian refugees, and called upon the UK government to defend their rights now…
The Said al Meshal Centre was a five-storey building opened in 2004, devoted to community arts and education, housing a library, computer lab, dabke troupes, musical bands, Gaza’s second biggest theatre and a popular children’s cinema. At approximately 6pm on…
In a letter to the Israeli Prime Minister last week, the President of the Middle East Studies Association warned that Israel’s policy of increasingly restrcting Palestinian universities’ access to international staff ‘severely imperils the quality of Palestinian education and the…
‘Put simply, without financial support I’m someone who would not be able to go to university.’ Aws, Birzeit University Palestinian students are now considering whether they will be able to go to university in September. They belong to the fourth generation…
Since its founding in 1949, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, or UNRWA as it is usually known, has provided a vital infrastructure dedicated to protecting the rights and dignity of the…
Israel currently holds around 6,119 Palestinians in jail, of whom 330 are children. According to Addameer, the Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, on average 700 children from the occupied West Bank are prosecuted in Israeli military courts every year.…
As a member of the Palestine Platform, Fobzu was a signatory to this letter: The Rt. Honourable Boris Johnson, MP Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs King Charles Street London SW1A 2AH 23 January 2018 Dear Secretary of…
