amideast helped ismail ajjawi win a scholarship to harvard university.assador kattouf is a former u.s. ambassador to the united arab emirates and then syria. we're going to start with matthias schmale, director of unrwa operations in gaza. you are there in gaza. talk about this school that ismail comes from. >> good morning to you and thank you for your interest in this story. of course, the situation in gaza is slightly different from the one in lebanon where ismail went to school but we run the same school system. schools.we have 276 anand in the school year that started about two weeks ago, we -- 284,000 students like ismail, hungry for a good educatation and with dreams s ad toes to maybe not all go harvard, of course, but to make something out of this education by continuing to study and finding opportunities like ismail has just found. amy: talk about the number of stududents in these schools. how situation?ismail's he gets into harvard, comes to logan airport in boston, and he is i immediately deported. amazingly, they said to him they had problem

ismail ajjawi was turned away at boston's logan airport just under two weeks ago after being interrogated by immigration officials about his religion and social media posts by friends that were critical of u.s. policy. he was then forced to return home to lebanon, but his case provoked outrage on the harvard campus and among some palestinian rights and academic freedom groups. theodore kattouf, the president of amideast, the educational nonprofit that granted a scholarship to ajjawi, said in a statement -- "we are pleased that ismail's harvard dream will come true after all. ismail is a bright young man whose hard work, intelligence and drive enabled him to overcome the challenges that palestinian refugee youth continue to face in order to earn a scholarship." and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. juan: welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. we begin today's show in west texas, where a gunman killed seven people and injured 22 others on saturday. the injur