Each night time, Nadia and I’m going to mattress, barely sleeping as we depend the hours till morning, anxiously awaiting a textual content from our mother-in-law to inform us that they survived the night time.
All through the day, the 100 individuals within the household dwelling should share their meals. The adults hardly eat, the mother-in-law solely ate cashew nuts yesterday, they ration in order that the kids at dwelling don’t find yourself malnourished, however time is operating out.
I spoke to my mother-in-law this morning. She feels helpless and has misplaced hope. She instructed me she feels just like the UK authorities has forgotten her.
Please don’t interpret my opinion as political, it’s not. She is a UK citizen, however the one communication she receives from the Overseas Workplace is a textual content message telling her what she already is aware of – that the Rafah crossing is closed.
What she wants is for the UK authorities, the prime minister, the international secretary, to spend each minute of each day demanding that their allies in Egypt and Israel open the Rafah crossing, and open it now, to permit residents of the UK – all those that are trapped in Gaza – secure passage and for them to return dwelling to their households.