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UK accused of mounting increasingly aggressive tactics to refuse Gazans entry

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Legal challenges by the UK government to Palestinians' attempts to travel to the UK to be reunited with their families are becoming increasingly aggressive, a campaigner has said. Ghassan Ghaben, co-founder of Gaza Families Reunited, said immigration lawyers with whom he works have noticed an increased determination to challenge successful appeals by Palestinians . Mr Ghaben was speaking after two recent court decisions regarding cases of Palestinians looking to come to the UK. In the first case, the Home Office went to the High Court to block a 67-year-old woman from coming to Britain for medical treatment after she had successfully appealed against being refused entry clearance on a six-month visa. The cost of the treatment would have been paid for by her daughter. More recently, a grandfather and three grandchildren won their appeal to come to the UK to live with the children’s aunt after their parents were killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza. Their initial attempt to apply for

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