Charities attack ban on Gaza students bringing families to UK

Charities and universities criticized the “extreme hard” rules that prevented the UK government from bringing their families to England from Gaza.

Last week, 34 Gaza students with scholarships at British universities evacuated Before starting his work.

However, after learning more strict migration rules, some students said that they should give up their places instead of leaving the family in Gaza after preventing them from bringing addicts.

Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy said that the government wanted the government to leave the family behind the family “to bring people who can work to work not to cause more pain or trouble.”

Enver Solomon, CEO of Refugee Council, said: “It is very hard to say that students who escaped from the terrible destruction in Gaza should leave their loved ones behind when they can work safely here.

“Nobody should have to choose between their trainings and their families.

“The government should rethink urgently and ensure that families stay together in safety.”

Oxford University, the impact of existing restrictions on student addicts is “very anxious”, and this “very young children and babies and talented gazanic academicians from taking their place of risk,” he said.

Scottish Training Secretary Jenny Gilruth said that he demanded a meeting with Foreign Minister Yette Cooper and that the Holyrood government could not understand why these families are not allowed to travel and stay together. “

“At the human level, considering the fears of these people, there is a moral necessity to honor this problem.”

The evacuation of 34 students is following the campaign for months by politicians, academics and others on behalf of more than 100 Palestinian students who bid from the UK universities this year.

The group includes members. Chevening scholarshipIt is a plan that is mostly financed by the state for international students to receive one -year graduate degree training in the UK.

If the BBC is allowed to be allowed to be addicted to Chevening Scholars, a maximum of 20 children will come to England this year.

At least one exception is known to be given by Yette Cooper as a home secretary who allows a woman Chevening information to bring her two -year -old child.

For Manar Al-Houbi, it means leaving three little children and husband behind in Gaza to take part in a doctorate at the University of Glasgow.

“We are a family, we one of us, we can’t leave,” he said to the BBC, over his tent in Khan Younis.

Al-Houbi said that he completed his master’s degree in England in 2018, and he was one of the most difficult times throughout my life because I left my family, so I decided not to repeat this experience “.

As part of a pressure on migration, most international students are no longer allowed to bring their addicts to England – but doctoral students are still able to bring their families.

In the case of Ms. Al-Houbi, the BBC understands that although children are suitable for a visa to come to England, they cannot be released from Gaza.

Ms. Al-Houbi said that she could not bring her children “just a few days before our evacuation”.

“It was a very difficult time for me to know that I had to choose between my family and my education.

“It is impossible for me to leave them – I can’t leave my husband and my children”.

Lammy and Laura Kuensberg and the government on Sunday, “Actually, it depends on Israeli permits to reveal people, and it’s not easy.”

However, the intention of England, had to leave their families behind, “people who can work more pain or difficulty not to create,” he added.

Last week, a group of serious sick children He came to England Emergency NHS from Gaza for expert medical care.

Israel is one Great ground attack in Gaza City Tuesday.

On the same day, one The United Nations Investigation Commission found that Israel is doing genocide Against the Palestinians in Gaza.

Israel said that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected the report categorically and condemned it as “distorted and wrong”.

Israel launched a war in Gaza in response to an attack led by Hamas militants in Southern Israel on 7 October 2023, and about 1,200 people were killed and 251 people were taken hostage.

According to the region’s Ministry of Health, at least 65,141 people have died in Israeli attacks in Gaza since then.