Gazan students granted approval to study in UK
The government has accepted its plans to allow approximately 40 students in Gaza to come to the UK to get university scholarships financed in the coming weeks.
Nine is said to be assisted to leave Gaza to follow scholarships within the scope of Chevening program, which is predominantly financed by the state to work on one -year graduate degrees of international students.
The BBC also understands that the Minister of the Interior has approved the plans to help approximately 30 people who fully finance scholarships through other special plans.
Since the Hamas-Israeli War began in 2023, they will be the first to leave Gaza in England. However, Israel must admit that each student can leave the region.
Israel, Israel’s war in Gaza in September, in September, if he said that he would recognize a Palestinian state, relations with Israel worsened.
In addition, there will be important logistics difficulties to evacuate students from a war zone. Before being brought to the UK, visa will be taken to a third country in the region for biometric controls.
A home office resource plan was described as “complex and challenging,” but he said that the Minister of the Interior “clarified” to take students’ place in the UK.
Approves, BBC’s nine Chevening’s Students were sent by e -mail About Work Programs.
The decision is following the campaign for months by politicians, academics and others on behalf of more than 80 Palestinian students who bidd up from the UK universities this year.
Although approximately 40 students are within the scope of the latest decision – there are others who do not have financed places.
A few students have recently talked to the BBC before the last development, some fears may die before evacuating.
The others said they would find it hard to leave their loved ones behind.
The British government also plans to evacuate a group of critical patients and injured children for medical treatment in the coming weeks.
Other countries, including Italy, Ireland and France, have already evacuated students. However, France suspended the evacuation program at the beginning of this month after being accused of online anti -Semitic explanations of a Palestinian student in the country.
Israel launched a campaign in Gaza after Hamas had killed about 1,200 people and has kidnapped 251 people in October 2023 in Southern Israel. Since then, more than 60,000 people have been killed in Gaza, and the Palestinians could not leave the region to a large extent without diplomatic help.
