Gaza Students with Consul General

Thirty High School Students from Gaza Visit the United States on U.S. Department of State-Sponsored Trip

The U.S. Department of State sponsored a two-week visit to the U.S. focused on human rights and democracy for a group of 30 high school students from Gaza. Two separate groups of 15 girls and 15 boys were selected because of their outstanding performance in their human rights classes at UNRWA schools in Gaza. Along with their teachers, the students visited Atlanta; Washington, D.C.; and New York City.

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  U.S. Consulate Warns Public Against Visa Fraud

  As part of ongoing efforts to promote legitimate travel to the United States, members of the Visa Unit of the U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem met with media outlets to discuss a recent increase in the number of visa applicants presenting incomplete or misleading information, and to raise public awareness about how to avoid fraud and how fraud negatively affects a person’s eligibility to travel to the United States.

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  U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem and AMIDEAST Celebrate English Access Microscholarship Graduation

  The English Access Microscholarship Program (ACCESS), funded by the U.S. Department of State and administered by AMIDEAST, is celebrating the graduation of 925 Palestinian students from throughout the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem this month. This is the fourth class of students to participate in ACCESS since the program’s inception in 2004. Minister of Education Lamis Al Alami and U.S. Consul General Daniel Rubinstein attended a festive graduation ceremony in honor of 140 students in Ramallah on January 29.

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  Secretary Clinton on Internet Freedom:

  On their own, new technologies do not take sides in the struggle for freedom and progress, but the United States does. We stand for a single internet where all of humanity has equal access to knowledge and ideas. And we recognize that the world’s information infrastructure will become what we and others make of it.