Elizabeth El-Nakla, a British citizen and the mother-in-law of Scotland's first minister, shares her four-week ordeal of being trapped in Gaza and pleads for help for the Palestinians.
Before 7 October, Elizabeth El-Nakla was a grandmother, a retired nurse and the mother-in-law of Scotland's first minister. After that day, she became the most prominent British citizen trapped in Gaza . Millions of us watched the video Humza Yousaf, Scotland's first minister, shared on social media where his visibly distressed mother-in-law said goodbye to her family and pleaded with the international community to help the Palestinians trapped in Gaza .
Today, two weeks after she and her husband, Maged, escaped Gaza and returned to their family home in Dundee, Elizabeth and her daughter Nadia, the first minister's wife, sat down to share their story in an exclusive interview with Sky News. Grateful and relieved to be home, Elizabeth nevertheless is clearly still in great distress as she recounts her four-week ordeal and tells me she feels a great sense of guilt for not just her family but ordinary Gazans trapped. 'It's changed me forever,' she told me sitting in the kitchen of her home in Dunde
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