Mahmoud Almassri, 31, who left the Gaza Strip in 2017 is desperate to bring his displaced family, who are living in a tent, to the UK.
A Palestinian student in Scotland who has spent a year trying to help his family escape Gaza has urged the UK Government to launch an initiative similar to the Ukraine Family Scheme . Mahmoud Almassri, 31, left his hometown of Beit Hanoun, a city on the north-east edge of the Gaza Strip, in 2017 to study a Masters degree in Turkey before relocating to Edinburgh in 2021 to study physics at Heriot-Watt University in the Scottish capital.
” Advice from the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office outlined on the UK Government website that there are “currently no exit routes available for foreign nationals to depart Gaza as a result of the military operations” but has contacted authorities in Israel, Egypt and Jordan about alternative paths. Fleeing Ukrainians were offered visas which granted three years leave in the UK under programmes such as Homes for Ukraine, the Ukraine Extension Scheme and the Ukraine Family Scheme.
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