Sick Gaza kids brought to UK

THE first group of seriously ill and injured Palestinian children evacuated from Gaza is on its way to Britain for specialist NHS care, Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has confirmed.

- By Ciaran McGrath

It marks the start of the first official Government programme to bring critically ill children out of the conflict zone.

Before reaching Britain the patients are stabilised by medics in a neighbouring country, a step made necessary by the collapse of Gaza’s healthcare system.

Unicef estimates at least 50,000 kids have been killed or injured in the Strip since the war there began nearly two years ago.