HUMZA Yousaf has said his family’s “hearts are broken” as they fear for their relatives trapped in Gaza – who they cannot reach.
The First Minister has also accused the UK Government of being “complicit in some of the violence” by failing to back a UN resolution calling for a ceasefire.
Yousaf told the Sunday National the family was “desperately worried” and fearing the worst after having no contact from anyone in Gaza where his in-laws have been sheltering in a house with around 100 people. “It has been three weeks now they have been trapped in that warzone and our hearts are broken for them.”
The UK Government has said the abstention was due to the draft’s omission of “an unequivocal condemnation of Hamas’s terrorist attacks”. “We are calling not on one side to do a ceasefire – you can’t have a unilateral ceasefire – we are calling on all parties to cease the violence and the UK Government is a trusted friend, a trusted ally of the Israeli government and they should be using that position as a trusted ally to not just call for, but demand cessation of violence.
“The people are on the streets demanding it – why the UK Government and leader of the opposition aren’t doing what the people are demanding I can’t understand,” he said. Yousaf said the people of Scotland could help by “continuing to raise their voice” as they have often done “when there is injustice in the world”.
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