Urged in parliament to do more for Palestinian children in Gaza who need medical treatment, British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said last week he would be "happy to do more" if requests were made to bring them to the UK.
There is, in fact, a request on the table that is still awaiting a decision.
A British coalition of doctors, lawyers and humanitarians asked the government over a month ago to facilitate and help fund a group of 20 to 40 Palestinian children to receive treatment in the UK that is no longer available in Gaza’s devastated healthcare system.
The request from Project Pure Hope (PPH) comes as children with treatable conditions who have been proposed for medical evacuation are dying before they make it out.
UN data shows Israeli authorities have drastically limited the number of patients permitted to leave the Palestinian enclave in recent months.
