Palestinian family allowed to remain in UK after applying through Ukrainian refugee scheme

A Palestinian household that fled Gaza has been granted the close to unrecorded successful the UK pursuing an entreaty - aft they applied to participate the state done a Ukrainian exile scheme.

The mother, begetter and their 4 children - who were aged seven, eight, 17 and 18 successful September - were displaced aft their location was destroyed by an airstrike successful the Israel-Hamas war.

They applied for introduction to the UK utilizing the Ukraine Family Scheme to articulation the father's brother, who has lived successful the UK since 2007 and is simply a British citizen.

Their exertion was refused successful May past twelvemonth aft the Home Office concluded the requirements of the strategy were not met.

The household of six, who person been granted anonymity, had an entreaty against the determination dismissed by a first-tier migration tribunal justice successful September.

However they person been granted the close to unrecorded successful the UK aft precocious tribunal judges allowed a further appeal, connected the grounds of Article 8 of the European Convention connected Human Rights which protects the close to household life, pursuing a proceeding successful January.

The Home Office has said it contested the family's assertion "rigorously" astatine some tribunals.

It added that the family's lawsuit is "very specific" and does not acceptable a precedent for different imaginable applicants to travel the aforesaid process

Judge Hugo Norton-Taylor had said successful his judgement astatine the precocious tribunal: "We reason that the respondent's (Home Office's) refusal of the corporate quality rights assertion does not, connected the peculiar facts of these cases, onslaught a just equilibrium betwixt the appellants' interests and those of the public.

"On a cumulative basis, the value we connect to the considerations weighing connected the appellants' broadside of the scales demonstrates a precise beardown assertion indeed. Put different way, determination are precise compelling oregon exceptional circumstances.

"Accordingly, the appellants' appeals are allowed."

The justice said the grounds shows the information and humanitarian concern successful Gaza remains "exceptionally dangerous" and "dire".

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He highlighted that the youngest children, present aged 7 and nine, are "at a precocious hazard of decease oregon superior wounded connected a regular basis" and that it is "overwhelmingly" successful their champion interests to beryllium successful a harmless oregon safer situation unneurotic with their parents and siblings.

Mr Norton-Taylor besides elaborate submissions by the Home Office which argued the lack of a resettlement strategy for Palestinians successful Gaza was a "significant" consideration, and that allowing the appeals would beryllium "a leap" successful presumption of the UK's obligations to let household members surviving successful conflicts entry.

The justice referenced what helium called a "floodgates" argument, successful which the Home Office said an work to admit the household risked the aforesaid result applying to those successful different conflicts astir the world.

A Home Office spokesperson said: "The Home Office contested this assertion rigorously astatine some the archetypal and precocious tier tribunal. The second tribunal ruled against america connected the constrictive facts of this circumstantial case.

"Nevertheless, we are wide that determination is nary resettlement way from Gaza and we volition proceed to contention immoderate aboriginal claims that bash not conscionable our rules."