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Gazan students granted approval to study in UK
BBC News ^ | 26 August 2025 | Nick Eardley and Daniel Wittenberg

Posted on 08/26/2025 5:34:54 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

The government has agreed plans to allow around 40 students in Gaza to come to the UK in the coming weeks to take up funded university scholarships.

Nine have been told they will be given assistance to leave Gaza to pursue scholarships under the Chevening scheme, a government-funded initiative for international students to study one-year master's degrees.

The BBC understands the home secretary has also approved plans to help around 30 others who have fully funded scholarships through other private schemes.

They would be the first to leave Gaza to study in the UK since the Hamas-Israel war began in 2023. However, Israel must agree that each student can leave the territory.

Relations with Israel have deteriorated since the UK said it would recognise a Palestinian state in September if Israel did not meet certain conditions related to its war in Gaza.

There will also be considerable logistical challenges evacuating students from a war zone. They will be taken to a third country in the region for visa biometric checks before being brought to the UK.

A Home Office source described the plan as "complex and challenging", but the home secretary had made it "crystal clear" that she wanted the students to take up their places in the UK".

The approvals come a day after the BBC reported that the nine Chevening students had been emailed about their study programmes.

The decision follows months of campaigning by politicians, academics, and others on behalf of more than 80 Palestinian students who hold offers from UK universities this year.

Although around 40 students are covered by the latest decision – there are others without funded places.

Several students have spoken to the BBC in recent days, before the latest development, with some raising fears they might die before they can be evacuated.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Gaza; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alhusseini; arabnazis; danielwittenberg; gazahoax; holocaustmufti; holocaustsurvivors; nickeardley; palestinazis; rop; sharia

1 posted on 08/26/2025 5:34:54 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

With their 70 IQs.


2 posted on 08/26/2025 5:42:01 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

The only courses they could pass are “Underwater Lesbian Dance”, and methinks that Muzzies might have troubles with that. In any case, a good judge of university potential is to observe which piles of s**t accept them. Naturally, the Ivy Leagues will compete for them.


3 posted on 08/26/2025 5:42:56 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: HYPOCRACY

How many will be accepted? 600.000?


4 posted on 08/26/2025 5:43:34 PM PDT by USA-FRANCE (Silence against evil isn't neutrality, it's complicity. Oppose the Iran-Russia-North Korea Alliance!)
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To: HYPOCRACY

Let all 2.1 million Gazans into UK.


5 posted on 08/26/2025 5:48:46 PM PDT by Eli Kopter (ביחד ננצח הלב שלנו שבוי בעזה Together we will win, our heart is captive in Gaza.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

how about another million or two, UK is a lost cause anyway


6 posted on 08/26/2025 6:30:50 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: MinorityRepublican

Some classes

Computer interception of data using unmarked vans outside.

Jamming and disabling of police communications and traffic signals.

Jumbo jet airliner takeoffs pilot training.

Stump removal explosives with remote detonators.

Manufacture of plastic weapons using 3D with Tinkercad and Blender.

Modern Ninja Warfare Techniques.


7 posted on 08/26/2025 6:37:45 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: MinorityRepublican
Cui bono?

8 posted on 08/26/2025 6:45:29 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Gazan students granted approval to study in UK

Shovel, meet Hole

9 posted on 08/26/2025 8:06:49 PM PDT by chief lee runamok ( Le Flâneur @Large)
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To: All

What are they going to study? How to make a bomb or how to translate mein kampf?


10 posted on 08/26/2025 8:09:56 PM PDT by Milagros
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To: All

Mideast backgrounder

https://web.archive.org/web/20240118234246/https://history.fandom.com/wiki/Mideast_backgrounder


11 posted on 08/26/2025 8:12:31 PM PDT by Milagros
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To: MinorityRepublican
around 40 students

around 40 Terrorists.

Just lots of fun for the UK.

You'll wish you had Trump.

12 posted on 08/26/2025 9:51:17 PM PDT by CptnObvious
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To: MinorityRepublican

This is a good idea. I don’t see any potential problems. Boom.


13 posted on 08/27/2025 2:53:13 AM PDT by MarlonRando
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To: MinorityRepublican

Some revolution against migrant invasion importation. They are gone.


14 posted on 08/27/2025 5:37:38 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US;-))
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