Rice will look into cancelled grants for Palestinian scholars

0 Comments | AFP, May, 2008

REYKJAVIK (AFP) — US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice vowed Friday to look into a report that her department has scrapped grants to Palestinian scholars because they could not get Israeli approval to leave Gaza.

"I had not known this and I'll look into it. Perhaps there are reasons but I want to look into why this happened," Rice told reporters traveling with her to Iceland.

In a front-page story from Gaza, the International Herald Tribune reported Friday that the State Department had withdrawn all Fulbright grants to Palestinian students in Gaza.

It said the decision affected seven students who had been hoping to pursue advanced degrees at US academic institutions in the fall term.

The students were not given permission to leave Gaza under an...

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