'Every update we get ends up with my parents almost getting killed,' Mo El-Deeb, 30, said
Talal and Naila El-Deeb were visiting family in Gaza when Hamas attacked Israel, leaving them unable to escape the war zone
They ran out of critical medicine and food several days ago and have only a “small amount” of water left between them after Israel cut off critical aid, their son Mo El-Deeb, 30, said. Mr El-Deeb, the chief executive of a recruitment company, was sent an update from the British Foreign Office on Sunday, amid hopes that the Rafah crossing “may open tomorrow ” for a few hoursThe message added: “Attempting to cross is completed at your own risk. However, we are doing everything we can to support you.”
His parents also went to the border last Tuesday, following another alert from the Foreign Office, only for the crossing to be bombed a few minutes after their arrival. “Until now the Israeli government has not taken a position on opening the Rafah crossing from the Gaza side to allow the entrance of assistance and exit of citizens of third countries,” Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry told reporters.
Driving along the Salah-al-Din Road, a main thoroughfare to the south, they saw the wreckage of a bomb that had hit a convoy of vehicles hours before. “They saw the corpses… the situation was very, very bad,” Mr El-Deeb.
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