The First Minister's wife, Nadia El-Nakla, says her parents have told her 'they feel like they are going to die'.
The wife of Scotland's First Minister has said she feels like she is "just living in a nightmare" after her parents became trapped in Gaza.
They found themselves trapped after militant group Hamas sent fighters across the border and fired thousands of rockets in what it said was a new operation on Saturday. Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the country was "at war" as its military began striking targets in Gaza in response.
Join the Daily Record WhatsApp community! Get the latest news sent straight to your messages by joining our WhatsApp community today.All you have to do is click here if you're on mobile, select 'Join Community' and you're in!She added: "Every few hours I'm seeing things, and I'm calling my parents. But now we are talking about having to preserve their battery on their phone. We cannot keep talking to them because there's no electricity.
On Tuesday, Ms El-Nakla's husband Humza Yousaf wrote to Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, urging him to call on Israel to open a humanitarian corridor.
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