Dozens of Gaza students who won scholarships to universities in Italy are still waiting to be evacuated due to bureaucratic red tape, leaving qualified students in a deadly conflict zone, AFP has found. Neither the foreign ministry nor the ministry for universities and research responded to a question from AFP about the evacuation delays. Everything that I had been planning for disappeared," Abunada told AFP in Rome, adding that "most universities were destroyed". But that hasn't helped the students still waiting in Gaza. "We are not just files or numbers," he told AFP.