The Foreign Office has confirmed that the key border post remained closed to foreign nationals on Sunday.
Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden said during a Sunday media round that the UK government was “hopeful that the crossing will reopen again today” and that additional British citizens would be able to leave Gaza.
Zaynab Wandawi, 29, from Salford, Greater Manchester, travelled to Gaza in early October with her British-Palestinian husband and his relatives for a wedding before the Israel-Hamas war began. Ms Ali-Faten, 52, from Prestwich, north Manchester said: “It seems now that they’re being used as a bargaining chip, the foreign nationals.”
Groups assisting people trying to leave through Rafah said they struggled to get hold of contacts on Sunday as Gaza experienced its third total communications blackout since the start of the war on October 7. She said the department was “using all diplomatic channels to press for its reopening in co-ordination with our international partners”.
It comes as a group assisting those on the ground in the territory said some British citizens are facing the “excruciating” prospect of leaving without their family members when the border point does reopen.
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