The UK is denying medical treatment to Gaza's critically injured children

Medical professionals and NGOs say thousands of Palestinians need to be evacuated for specialist treatment, which is no longer available in Gaza’s devastated healthcare system.

The relative few who have been able to get out for treatment have ended up in Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Italy, France, Malta and the United States, among other countries.

But not the United Kingdom.

British doctors and organisations who are part of an initiative called Project Pure Hope told MEE that they began efforts in January to bring four siblings and their cousin from Gaza as a "test case" to see what would happen.

Three of the siblings, whose parents were killed, had suffered traumatic amputations and required further medical treatment, which paediatric hospitals across Britain were prepared to provide. 

Over £500,000 ($636,000) was raised, enough to cover their treatment, and arrangements were made for the children’s aunt and grandmother to accompany them, according to those involved.

The issue was visas.

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UK denies medical treatment to critically injured children from Gaza