The First Minister also said he and the mother of Bernard Cowan, a Scots man killed by Hamas, 'shared in each other's grief.'
The First Minister also said he and the mother of Bernard Cowan, a Scots man killed by Hamas, "shared in each other's grief."
“Throughout the day, the 100 people in the family home, must ration their food. The adults barely eat, my mother-in-law only ate cashew nuts yesterday, they ration so the children in the house don’t end up malnourished, but time is running out. “What she needs is the UK Government, the Prime Minister, the Foreign Secretary, to spend every minute of every day demanding that their allies in Egypt and Israel open the Rafah crossing and open it now, to allow those UK citizens – all of them who are trapped in Gaza – safe passage and for them to return home to their families.”
“So let us agree, that too many mothers and fathers have lost their children, too many children have become orphaned, and that is why an immediate ceasefire must be agreed to.”
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