A Palestinian Family in Gaza Requests Assistance from a UK Court to join a Relative

LONDON: On Wednesday, a Palestinian family of six who were stranded in Gaza after being granted permission to visit a cousin in the United Kingdom requested that the London High Court force officials to reevaluate their decision to decline to request assistance from Israel in order to evacuate the enclave.

Attorneys for a Palestinian couple and their four kids say the family was granted permission to go to the UK to join the British-citizen family member. In February, opposition leader Kemi Badenoch and Prime Minister Keir Starmer openly criticised a London tribunal’s ruling earlier that year, which had allowed the family to join the UK.

However, because there isn’t a functioning visa centre in Gaza, the family’s attorneys claim that Britain’s foreign ministry is refusing to help because it won’t ask Israel if the family may leave Gaza to supply the biometric information required to fly to Britain.

The family’s attorney, Tim Owen, stated that they were requesting that the High Court direct the Foreign Office to reevaluate its ruling. According to Owen’s court documents, three of the family’s four children were recently shot at when trying to get help, and one of them was also hit in the wrist by shrapnel from a tank shell.

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