Palestinians are being erased, says Humza Yousaf’s wife

Lizzie Roberts
The Times
Students at University of Glasgow staged a sit-down protest on Monday demanding the university shows solidarity with Palestinians. Elizabeth El-Nakla, Yousaf’s mother-in-law, told Sky News about her and her husband Maged’s horrific ordeal in Gaza
Students at University of Glasgow staged a sit-down protest on Monday demanding the university shows solidarity with Palestinians. Elizabeth El-Nakla, Yousaf’s mother-in-law, told Sky News about her and her husband Maged’s horrific ordeal in Gaza
Lizzie Roberts
The Times

Palestinians are being “erased from the world”, Nadia El-Nakla has said as she revealed that she is living each day not knowing “if my family are going to live”.

El-Nakla, the wife of Humza Yousaf, the first minister, made the comments in her first interview alongside her mother who was stuck in Gaza until two weeks ago.

El-Nakla’s parents, Elizabeth and Maged, had gone to the region to visit an elderly relative before Hamas attacked Israel on October 7.

The couple, who live in Dundee, were trapped together with their son, a doctor, and his family, including their four grandchildren. Elizabeth and Maged El-Nakla eventually fled Gaza via the Rafah crossing into Egypt.

In their first interview since her parents returned home Nadia El-Nakla expressed