The Foreign Office said it is ‘vital that the safe passage of people, including all foreign nationals’ can continue.
The Foreign Office is pressing for a key border point in Gaza to be reopened to allow British nationals to leave the bombarded territory.
Zaynab Wandawi, 29, from Salford in Greater Manchester, and a group of 12 family members — 10 of whom are British nationals — were told they were on the list on Saturday, according to her mother, Lalah Ali-Faten. “This continues to be a complex and challenging situation and we are using all diplomatic channels to press for its reopening in co-ordination with our international partners,” the spokesman said.
Along with their dependents, the total number the UK is trying to secure passage for is thought to be in the low hundreds. The British Transport Police confirmed it was making inquiries into anti-Israel chanting on the tube network by demonstrators in the capital, with some protesters calling for revolution against Tel Aviv.In one video highlighted to the Metropolitan Police on X, formerly known as Twitter, what appear to be pro-Palestinian supporters can be heard chanting: “Smash the Zionist settler state.”
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