First sick children have left Gaza for UK - Cooper
The first batch of critically ill and injured Palestinian children set to receive NHS treatment have left Gaza and are expected to land in the United Kingdom in days. They are the first children to be admitted to the United Kingdom for medical care as part of a government initiative coordinated by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Home Office, and the Department of Health. In an interview with the Daily Mirror newspaper, foreign Minister Yvette Cooper reported that the children had been evacuated from Gaza. According to a Foreign Office source, the report was correct, and the children were supposed to arrive in the United Kingdom in the "coming days.
Students are also being sent by the UK government to study at British universities. Cooper did not specify how large the first group was, but the BBC reports that it contained between 30 and 50 Palestinian children. According to the Mirror, each child could be accompanied by family members if necessary.
Cooper said in the newspaper.It was a lot of diplomatic work in order to help them actually leave Gaza,
Some Gazan children have been taken privately to the United Kingdom for medical care through Project Pure Hope's initiative, but the government has yet to evacuate any of them through its own initiative during the conflict. The bodies of 47 people injured by the Israeli military in Gaza had arrived in their hospitals on Saturday, according to the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza. Since UN-backed global food security experts annoUNced a famine in Gaza City on August 22nd, the ministry has reported that at least 142 people died from starvation and hUNger across the region. The World Health Organization said earlier this year that Israel's assault in Gaza had stretched the territory's health system to its "break point. Israel has reported that it is expanding its efforts to support humanitarian aid delivery and has criticized the health ministry's estimates on malnutrition-related deaths. On October 7, 2023, the Israeli military launched its campaign in Gaza in reaction to the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel, which killed 1,200 people and took hostage 251 others. According to the territory's health ministry, at least 64,803 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since then.But the work is ongoing, and I'm determined to do our part to assist those injured families and also help students enroll in their classes this fall.
