Reconsider Gaza family case, court tells Foreign Office

A Palestinian family, trying to help them escape the British government from Gaza, won a critical decision in their legal wars.

On Monday, the Supreme Court said that the Foreign Minister should “rethink” about whether the authorities can help to remove the family.

In the decision, the family of six people, in the center of Gaza in a tent in Deir al-Balah “continuous injury or risk of death,” he said. Firstly, in January 2024, they applied to England, where they had British relatives.

A government spokesman said he was carefully thinking about the judiciary.

The case led to headlines in February. The center of a misunderstanding line in the Prime Minister questions (PMQS).

Conservative Leading Kemi Badenoch and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer claimed that the family benefited from a plan for Ukrainian refugees and confused.

However, their lawsuits were actually interested in their own principle in accordance with the settlement rules.

The father and two young adult children, known as the “waist”, were fired by Israeli forces at the point of distribution of aid.

The connections with the UK are made through the brother of the father called “BSJ” in court. Hamas settled in England legally after coming to power in Gaza in 2007 and becoming an British citizen.

The court heard that Hamas was so discriminated against the family working for political opponents.

After the beginning of October 2023 war, the BSJ began to ask if his brother and his family could come to England.

The Ministry of Interior gave permission to come to England in January this year and said that they should first pass biometric controls at the British Consulate in Jordan.

However, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs refused to ask Israel to allow the family to leave Gaza because it is only in extraordinary situations including a parent and child separated by the war.

Decision against the government, Justice Chamberlain, although the law does not require the government to help the family to reach the United Kingdom, the Foreign Secretary should look back, considering the legally exceptional nature of the situation.

The family’s lawyer Liz Barratt said: “We hope that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will carefully handle the judiciary and act quickly to rethink its approaches and policy approach to this case, so that our customers and others in a similar position can help them leave Gaza.”

In February, during Badenoch PMQs, when a judge was applied to the Palestinians with a plan designed for Ukrainians, it was a political order when it was “completely wrong” to give the right to live in England.

Starmer fired the government’s closure of the gap. At that time, he said, “It must be a parliament who makes the rules of immigration.”

However, the public appeal decision shows that the family is not allowed to be covered by the plan for Ukrainian refugees.

Although they initially used this immigration form, they accidentally won their case under the general human rights issues that allowed families from all past to request an exceptional assistance.

Lady Chief Justice Dame Sue Carr, then both leaders to respect the role of the law to support the law, considering the tasks of respect for the law, the case was “unacceptable” in the Parliament.