I have had a reply from the Home Office in response to my letter regarding the plight of Palestinian orphans and whether H.M.Gov. would consider a "Kindertransport" type scheme for these poor kids. It was a lengthy reply (2 pages) which basically informed me of what the U.K. is doing i.e. reminding Israel of it's responsibilities under International Law and also our country's part in providing humanitarian assistance to Gaza. The final sentence was very disappointing: "At present, we are not considering establishing a bespoke route for refugees from Gaza affected by the conflict".
I have written back to thank them for their response but that I was disappointed in that they have not addressed my specific concern i.e.
orphans and not the Palestinian population as a whole, as clearly there is no way that we could accommodate potentially hundreds of thousands of people.
So meanwhile I will be sending the link to Change.org (
https://www.change.org/p/welcome-pal...-into-uk-homes ) to everyone I know and see if it is possible to reach the target figure whereby H.M. Gov. have to take notice and debate the issue in Parliament.