Humza Yousaf speaks to the BBC about his in-laws trapped in Gaza
Speaking on the Sunday with Laura Kunnesburg show, Scotland's First Minister Humza Yousaf spoke about his in-laws who are trapped in Gaza with very little to eat or drink.
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00:00 Look, again, I'm not a military strategist. We all accept, I think
00:04 anybody who is reasonably minded would accept that after the barbaric
00:08 terrorism we saw a week past Saturday, that of course Israel has a
00:12 right to protect itself. But that cannot come, cannot come at the
00:17 price of 2.2 million innocent men, women and children. It cannot
00:21 justify cutting off water, food, fuel, supplies. I spoke to my
00:26 mother-in-law yesterday, the whole day she hadn't eaten, she had one
00:31 egg, I think she told me. She had had virtually just a couple of sips
00:35 of water because they have dozens of people now in their house and
00:38 they have little drinking water. And if that is true of my in-laws
00:44 who by Gasson standards have money, then what on earth is the plight
00:50 for those who are suffering the greatest? So, look, I know there
00:54 will be a lot of discussion, quite rightly so, around the geopolitics,
00:57 around the military strategy, but let's just think of the humanity
01:01 here of 2.2 million people, innocent men, women and children who are
01:07 suffering. And even if my in-laws get out, which I pray to God that
01:11 they do, that is just two people. What about the rest? And the world
01:15 is watching. And we cannot stand idly by and allow people's lives to
01:22 be lost, their homes to be destroyed, their hospitals to be bombed.
01:28 We cannot allow any of these actions to take place because of the
01:34 disgraceful actions of a few which I condemn unequivocally.
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