A SCOTTISH footballer who plays in Israel has told of how he had to flee the country after Hamas launched an attack.
Clark Robertson, who recently signed for MS Ashdod, was told by club officials to leave the country in the wake of the weekend attacks.The death toll in Israel has reached 1200, with more than 1000 people killed by Israeli air strikes on Gaza.The 30-year-old – who formally played for Aberdeen, Blackpool and Portsmouth - said once he and his teammates discovered Israel was under attack, they got on a bus to Ashdod which is only “about 20 minutes from Gaza”.
"A couple of rockets hit Ashdod yesterday actually. We've got a group chat with all the players, I think they're all OK, they are all safe.”Robertson is now home in Aberdeen and added he did not know when he would be able to go back out to Israel.The parents of First Minister Humza Yousaf's wife, Nadia El-Nakla, remain trapped in Gaza after travelling there to visit the 92-year-old mother of Yousaf's father-in-law.
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