Emma Roddick called for the scheme to be expanded to include more members of immediate and extended family.
Scotland’s migration minister has urged the Government to expand the number of Palestinian people who can join their family in the UK.
She also called for the Home Office to waive the need for biometric data to be collected for Gazans looking to leave before they arrive in the UK, or to transfer those trying to come here to a site where they can make an application under the current system. “This should be open to a wider cohort of immediate and extended family, including parents, children over 18, siblings and their children.
She told the story of Doaa, whom she said spent six weeks without being able to contact her mother, sister and children, as they made the trip from the north of Gaza to Rafah in the south of the territory on foot.Since the outbreak of war in Gaza, the minister said, she has received “several hundred” letters from residents asking to come to Scotland to seek safety, including one father who wrote six times, whose 11-year-old daughter died due to “a lack of specialist food and medical support”.
A spokesperson for the UK Government said: “We are working around the clock to get British nationals, who want to leave, out of Gaza. We have a team on the ground in Cairo and at the Rafah crossing providing consular assistance.
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