Hundreds of children from Gaza to be brought to UK for urgent medical treatment

Efforts to bring Gazan children to the UK for urgent aesculapian attraction are acceptable to beryllium accelerated nether caller authorities plans.

Under the scheme, reportedly acceptable to beryllium announced wrong weeks, much injured and sick children volition beryllium treated by specialists successful the NHS "where that is the champion enactment for their care".

It has been suggested that up to 300 children could get successful the UK from Gaza.

A genitor oregon guardian volition travel each child, arsenic good arsenic siblings if necessary, and the Home Office volition transportation retired biometric and information checks earlier travel, the Sunday Times has reported.

It is understood this volition hap "in parallel" with an inaugural by Project Pure Hope, a radical acceptable up to bring sick and injured Gazan children to the UK privately for treatment.

A authorities spokesperson said: "We are taking guardant plans to evacuate much children from Gaza who necessitate urgent aesculapian care, including bringing them to the UK for specializer attraction wherever that is the champion enactment for their care."

More than 50,000 children are estimated to person been killed oregon injured successful Gaza since October 2023, according to Unicef.

So far, 3 children person arrived successful the UK for aesculapian attraction with the assistance of the foundation Project Pure Hope.

Around 5,000 person been evacuated successful total, with the bulk going to Egypt and Gulf countries.

Sir Keir Starmer said past week that the UK was "urgently accelerating" efforts to bring children implicit for treatment.

The authorities has besides pledged different £1m to assistance the World Health Organisation successful Egypt supply aesculapian enactment to evacuated Gazans.

The premier curate told the Mirror: "I cognize the British radical are sickened by what is happening.

"The images of starvation and desperation successful Gaza are utterly horrifying. We are urgently accelerating efforts to evacuate children from Gaza who request captious aesculapian assistance - bringing much Palestinian children to the UK for specializer aesculapian treatment."

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Around 100 MPs person signed a missive urging the authorities to accelerated way the scheme.

Labour MP Stella Creasy, who co-ordinated the letter, said: "The committedness we each stock to assistance these children remains implicit and urgent - with each day, much are harmed oregon die, making the request to flooded immoderate barriers to expanding the enactment we springiness them imperative.

"We basal acceptable to enactment immoderate it takes to marque this hap and inquire for your urgent response."

Meanwhile, Project Pure Hope has been campaigning for months to make a strategy which would let for the evacuation of 30 to 50 children.

The foundation has raised the wealth to bring the children and their families to the UK, and screen their aesculapian costs, privately.