Palestinians carry an injured person following an Israeli air strike near the Al Aqsa hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza . In the first six months of the conflict the UK Government allowed Gazans with direct family ties – children or spouses – in the UK and with six months remaining on a UK visa to return to the UK.
What is perfectly clear to any observer, even of the highly propagandised mainstream media, is that the Palestinians in Gaza are in grave danger and need to be able, should they wish, to be refugees and to cross the borders into a place of safety. But they can’t, for two clear reasons.THE sea is blockaded, Israeli and other war ships block the entire coastline. There is a separation wall surround the entire perimeter of the Gaza Strip. It is armed. There is no way through.
However, should UNRWA cease in its ability to provide assistance to Palestinian refugees in its countries of unique operation, then UNHCR must step in under Refugee Convention: Article 1d. It’s also at the heart of Israel’s strategy – destroy UNRWA, destroy the right of return for Palestinian refugees; destroy the prospects of the two-state solution. Destroy conditions of life.
The international humanitarian rules have not just been shredded but they have been mocked, publicly, by our own Foreign Secretary, by the US and by Germany in what Francesca Albanese has called “humanitarian camouflage”– a quest for impunity and for a legal argument to be found by redefining terms that will allow what we are seeing to be permitted under international law.So far, the political pressure is not enough and ministers keep refusing.
We need what are normally called “humanitarian visas” which are separate from those issued to people exercising their right to seek asylum. Unlike asylum applications, humanitarian visas can be issued prior to arrival.Why are you making commenting on The National only available to subscribers?
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