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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Sally Weale Education correspondent

UK vows to help 30 more students leave Gaza to take up university places

Soha with a baby she helped deliver
Soha is one of the students hoping to take up her place at a UK university. Photograph: Supplied

Ministers have approved plans to help a further 30 students leave Gaza to take up places at UK universities next month but their evacuation remains uncertain and dependent on Israel’s approval.

It takes the total to 39, after a government commitment last week to work to secure the evacuation from Gaza of nine Chevening scholars with places at some of the UK’s leading universities.

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