Joanna Cherry: UK Government is abandoning its moral duty to Palestinians

ON Monday it was reported that right-wing protesters in Israel had blocked aid trucks destined for Gaza, throwing food packages onto the road and ripping open bags of grain.

On their travels the Spooners met many Palestinians who blamed Britain for the loss of their nation and the dispossession of their land during the Nakba. Nakba, Arabic for “catastrophe,” refers to the 1948 displacement of roughly 700,000 Palestinians. The British government recognised the State of Israel in 1950, but Palestinians remain stateless, exiled, refugees or second-class citizens within Israel and the Occupied Territories.

The UK Government has previously introduced successful bespoke pathways for those fleeing persecution in Ukraine, Afghanistan, and Hong Kong so it can quickly introduce visas when it suits it. So many of the children in Gaza have been orphaned because of the war, under the existing schemes it is very difficult for the remaining extended families to rescue their kin, so these existing routes do not fit in the current crisis.

Some online commentators reacting to the debate in Parliament said that neighbouring Arab countries should accept refugees from Gaza and that it is not the responsibility of the UK.

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