Gaza scholars are waiting for the withdrawal of Britain to study

As the students of Britain celebrated their university locations, Mahmood received the news that he was waiting to sleep in a shelter in Central Gaza.

The 27 -year -old doctor, who holds a prestigious scholarship to study for a masters at the Global Health Policy at the London School of Economics, completed one night innings treating trauma patients at a field hospital. Instead of waiting for the exam results, he was eager to know if he would be able to leave Gaza to start his course.

“I was highly emotional and was very happy to be honored with scholarship,” Mahmood tells BBC News. “This gave me the energy to work. But most of the time, I avoided talking about it due to indefinite uncertainty.”

Mahmud is one of the nine students in Gaza who received emails from the UK government this week, he said that it was working to facilitate their withdrawal. When successful, they will be the first to leave the bandage to study in the UK since the war began.

More than 80 Palestinian students who are offers from UK universities this year, including over 80 Palestinian students after the months of election campaign after months of development, include around 50 with a fully funded scholarship.

Chewing scholar like Mahmud – a high competitive UK recipient Foreign Office Grants – To confirm whether they want to be removed and provide their approximate place in Gaza. Other students have not yet been contacted.

“This is a positive step. It has hoped and optimistic about being emptied in the coming weeks. However, the message does not guarantee me,” says Mahmood.

Originally from Beat Lahia in North Gaza, Mahmood says he has dreamed of studying in Britain from an early age.

When the war broke out, he voluntarily worked in a plastic and reconstruction surgery unit at Al-Shifa Hospital before working on temporary wards in Gaza. He hopes that his degree will one day help in reconstruction of the delicate healthcare system of the area.

“Life has never been easy,” he says. “In the last two years I have seen suffering beyond imagination. I stand with families in my most difficult moments, while all are trying to keep hope alive for their future.”

Mahmud, who lives with his wife, parents and three sisters, does not know if any of them will be evacuated.

He says: “This is a one -time lifetime opportunity, but it will be difficult to leave my family behind to face constant displacement, famine, chaos and insecurity.”

For 25 -year -old Mohammed, another shaving scholar, the day he received his proposal to study for Masters at the University of Glasgow, was carved in memory.

A friend in Britain had given a message to his brother, who hurried in a tent, where Mohammad was living and urged to find a place with an internet connection to examine his email.

“When I saw the word ‘congratulations’, I froze for a moment,” he remembers. “I thought, just for a moment, that the noise of bombs and the fear of me faded, and I felt hope again.”

But like Mahmud, he finds the possibility of withdrawal of withdrawal.

“It sounds like life after much darkness. The opportunity to move forward finally. But it is heavy with joy pain.

“My family is still here, alive, but being in constant danger and dropping them behind will be the most painful decision of my life,” he said Radio 4 The World Tonite,

Mohammed, who is due to studying infectious diseases and epidemics of antimicrobial resistance, says he feels an obligation to use his education that he will benefit those who will leave behind.

“This opportunity is not an escape. It is a responsibility for them to study, learn and return strong.”

“Everything I learn in Glasgow will not stay in the lecture hall. It will be taken back to serve those who need it.”

According to Israeli officials, the Palestinians were unable to leave the Gaza from October 2023, when the Palestinians were roughly left without diplomatic assistance, when according to Israeli officials, Israel launched a military operation after Hamas’s attack on southern Israel, during which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were held hostage.

According to the Hamas-Interested Health Ministry of the region, since then more than 62,622 people have been killed in Gaza.

Famine was confirmed in Gaza city And on Friday, the surrounding area by an un-assured food security body. The Israeli government has rejected the report.

The Foreign Office has not confirmed how many students will be supported or when there will be withdrawal, dozens of gooden students will be left with other scholarships in Limbo.

“It seems like a slow death inside,” says an English teacher of Rafa, 36 -year -old Manar, who has been displaced 14 times during the war and now lives in a tent with her husband and three young daughters.

He has been awarded a Kara Fellowship – a plan for academics at the risk of adjacent imprisonment, injury or death – to study for PhD in education at the University of Glasgow.

He presented one of his grant applications from the roof of a damaged four -storey building to receive sufficient signs. When she reached the top, Manar says that she directed the bullets on a neighboring block, and pelting nearby.

“I don’t sleep for days,” she says. “Every day, I wonder who will come first – a message from the UK government, or a missile.”

“I feel deeply disappointed with this process, because some scholarship holders are preferred on others, even if we all deserve equal ideas.”

Alison Fips, a supervisor of Manar and expert at Glasgow University on refugee integration through art and education, says Mohammed could be taken out to study at the university, but believes other scholars should have the same support to leave the Gaza.

“This is a long hard road for these nine students.” She says. “I know they have hired, but I know that all eligible students have kept it evenly.

“A type of bureaucracy seems to be a block, and it will really help us if the government can identify what it is, so all the students who meet Threshold can come out.”

A British government spokesperson said it was “working immediately” to support the “safe exit for the UK” by Shaving Scholars.

The government is also understood that appeals for support of other Ghazan students along with places in UK universities are being considered, although no decision has been announced.

Preparing another late night working in the hospital, Mahmood insisted that while uncertainty remains for him, it is far more for those who have not yet been told whether they will be evacuated.

“If the UK government no longer functions, it will not only lose us, but the future applicants of Gaza and other regions are facing similar challenges,” they warns.