A group of between 30 and 50 critically ill and injured Palestinian children will be evacuated from Gaza to the UK for medical treatment in the coming weeks, the BBC understands.

They would be the first children brought to the UK for treatment as part of a government operation being coordinated by the Foreign Office, Home Office and Department of Health.

The children will be selected according to need by doctors working for the Hamas-run health ministry, before the World Health Organization coordinates travel, according to BBC.

It comes after some MPs wrote a letter to the government urging them to bring sick and injured children from Gaza to the UK "without delay".