FORMER first minister Humza Yousaf has described the “difficult” conversation he had with his wife around potential repercussions from Hamas…
FORMER first minister Humza Yousaf has described the “difficult” conversation he had with his wife around potential repercussions from Hamas against his family after condemning the terror attacks.MSP was recently a guest on the A Muslim & A Jew Go There podcast where he spoke at length about the conversations he had with his wife, Nadia El-Nakla, on the morning of the October 7 attacks.
Yousaf spoke about how on the day of the attacks he woke up and his wife’s phone had 27 notifications from his mother-in-law and quickly realised something was wrong.He then spoke about how his mother-in-law knew there had been an attack and had watched missiles fire from Gaza into Israel but, due to a media blackout, didn’t know what was going on.
Yousaf went on to add: “ the reason why I didn’t publicly do any news bids in the media broadcast for the first 24 hours, although there was no doubt I was always going to condemn Hamas. How could you not condemn Hamas given the brutality of the terror attack they committed? “I just had to speak to Nadia for 24 hours to say look I’m going to come out and say this, I’ve got to, and you understand the reasons why and she did. We have to go eyes wide open and know there could be repercussions to that.”We know there are thousands of National readers who want to debate, argue and go back and forth in the comments section of our stories. We’ve got the most informed readers in Scotland, asking each other the big questions about the future of our country.
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