Zaynab Wandawi, a British national born in Salford, was turned away again at the Rafah border crossing into Egypt on Saturday.
A British woman was denied passage through the Rafah border crossing into Egypt again on Saturday as her mother in the UK spoke of how foreign nationals in Gaza are “being used as bargaining chips”.
The Foreign Office said the temporary closure of the Rafah crossing was “disappointing” and it was pressing for the key border post to be reopened. “And the Palestinians are saying, ‘no, we want the ambulances to leave, deliver the sick and injured to the hospital and return to the other civilians’. “She called me, she couldn’t get through properly so she sent me a voice message and her voice was just so deflated.“It just continues the turmoil and the horror that we’re facing.”“I look at the screen, I see the loss of life and it’s so many children and families just losing their lives indiscriminately,” she said.
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