Gaza student with UCD scholarship hopes for reprieve ‘before chance is gone’

A computer science student from Gaza said the refusal of his visa appeal “broke him” after a three-year process of seeking escape from the “genocide that took my house, my street, my university”. Ahmed Abuhassan (22) had his study visa application rejected due to “financial reasons”. He holds an offer of a full scholarship to study computer science from UCD . On Friday, he challenged the Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan ’s refusal of visas in the High Court along with three other students, but he lost the appeal.