LONDON: A first group of severely ill children from Gaza have arrived in the UK under a scheme allowing them to receive urgent medical treatment, the British government said Wednesday. A cross-government taskforce has spent weeks coordinating the “complex humanitarian operation” to evacuate the children and their immediate families for specialist care under the state-run National Health Service (NHS), it added. The World Health Organization (WHO) said that it had supported the medical evacuations of 10 “critical” children from Gaza to the UK, alongside 50 of their companions.

LONDON: Dozens of sick and injured children from Gaza are expected to arrive for treatment in the UK in the coming days. They will be the first beneficiaries of a government…

Care and support package, including housing, will help 30-50 young Palestinians for an initial two years