John Swinney has warned Keir Starmer he is putting lives at risk after leaving students with places at Scottish unis stranded in Gaza. ‌

The First Minister joined ­Scottish university chiefs and MPs in calling for urgent action to help students trapped in the war zone after the UK Government said it would evacuate just nine people with university scholarships. ‌

The Sunday Mail revealed last week how one woman , Shaymaa, who has a fully funded PhD offer from Edinburgh University, is not among those being evacuated. ‌

It comes after a UN agency declared a famine in Gaza a nd Israel confirmed its plans for a takeover of Gaza City.

About 10 students who have full scholarships to study in Scotland are among a group of 78 stuck in Gaza with no way of taking up their places du

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