Gaza PhD student and family evacuated to UK after Foreign Office U-turn

Manar al-Houbi and her family, who have reached Jordan and will shortly travel to the UK. Photograph: Handout

The UK government has finally evacuated Manar al-Houbi, the Gaza student who won a fully funded scholarship to pursue her PhD at the University of Glasgow, along with her family from the war-ravaged territory this week.

In October, the Guardian highlighted Houbi’s desperate battle to get her family evacuated after they were denied entry to the UK, despite her scholarship and visa permitting her to bring them.