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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

Over half of UK nationals seeking to flee Gaza have left, Foreign Office says

People queue to leave Gaza at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt
People queue to leave Gaza at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

More than half of the British nationals seeking to escape Gaza for Egypt have managed to do so, but there are still distressing cases of families being split up, the Foreign Office has confirmed.

It said more than 150 British nationals and families had crossed into Egypt, and that the total number that came forward seeking help to escape was in the low hundreds, a figure that had not changed in recent days.

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