Posted on 10/14/2025 8:15:45 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The conflict in Gaza has fuelled a near-tenfold increase in Palestinians making illegal Channel crossings to the UK, which could now be reversed by Donald Trump’s peace deal.
Without any safe legal routes from Gaza to Britain, even to join family, Palestinians fleeing the Israel-Hamas conflict have opted for the perilous small boat journey.
While 38 crossed in the year to June 2024, in the subsequent 12 months there were 324.
Over the same period, the number of Palestinians claiming asylum in the UK more than doubled, from 327 in the year ending June 2024, to 841 in the year to June 2025.
The ceasefire negotiated by the US president means the desire to come to Britain might abate and asylum guidance might be rewritten to limit Palestinians’ rights to claim asylum.
Although the numbers seeking refuge in the UK are relatively small, sustained peace in the region would ease the immigration pressures on Sir Keir Starmer’s Government, just as the fall of the Assad regime stemmed the flow of migrants from Syria.
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That is one heck of a small boat trip from Gaza to England. How many countries do they pass by before they get to the Land of Suckers to give them asylum?
OK, Brits….. YOU TOO CAN FEEL THE GAZA EXPERIENCE. Enjoy!
Labour and Kier didn’t specify where the Palestinian state will be?
Fleeing war criminals seek sanctuary in the UK.
The flotillas of commercial and pleasure boats requested by Winston Churchill and sent to rescue the doomed British soldiers pinned down by the Germans in 1940 at the Dunkirk, France coast played a role in boosting British morale when it was nearly gone. Roughly 500,000 men would have died without help.
The Gaza trip is farther, even if Greta stands at the helm as a heroic Saint Joan of Arc leader. /S
Oh boy, are those brits in for a treat.
They make it sound like Gazans are sailing (rowing?) to England, which is thousands of miles away by water.
The Boat People (mostly Muslims) embark from the coast of France, about 20 miles, or less, from the southern coast of England.
Muslim criminal gangs are in charge of most of the attempted crossings.
If the so called refugees get one foot on dry land, they can request Asylum, which can take years to litigate.
Meanwhile, UK tax payers are supporting several hundred thousand Muslim Asylum seekers.
Because rebuilding your home and community is too hard.
That was a great story about the civilians rescuing the soldiers. It isn’t told often.
“Because rebuilding your home and community is too hard.”
Yes. It’s so much easier to invade a country with an existing infrastructure and benefits than to expand some effort and fix your own country.
Like dot-Indians. We and God spend 400 years creating America, then they sashay in with the belief that they’re entitled to EVERYTHING we created.
Starmer, you recognize the HAMAS/PLO state of PALEOstine? Good for you, establish a HAMAS/PLO enclave in the UK. Good luck with that!
You will notice that they are not fleeing to other Muslim countries!
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