Dramatic moment: Humza Yousaf’s wife tearfully interrupts interview with SNP leader, fearing her family’s home in Gaza has been bombed

The wife of Scotland’s first minister erupted dramatically in an interview he conducted today, saying: “She feared her family’s home in Gaza had been bombed.

Both Mr. Yousaf and his wife Nadia El-Nakla openly expressed their concerns for their family – including her parents, grandmother, brother and his children – who are currently stuck in Gaza.

Her parents, Elizabeth and Maged El-Nakla, traveled to Gaza last week to visit his 93-year-old mother as Hamas attacked Israel, prompting reprisals and the declaration of a “siege” on the territory by senior Israeli officials.

The First Minister was due to speak to various media outlets on Thursday ahead of the party conference in Aberdeen this weekend.

In the first minutes of her conversation with the PA news agency in the drawing room of his official residence at Bute House, Ms El-Nakla entered the room sobbing and told the First Minister she was unable to contact her family, who they had spoken to in just a few hours before.

The First Minister later said she had been monitoring media reports of bombings and realized the area was close to where her parents were staying. Eventually she managed to contact her family, who confirmed they were safe.

Although Mr Yousaf was visibly shaken by the news, he insisted the interview would continue.

Both Mr. Yousaf and his wife Nadia El-Nakla openly expressed their concerns for their family – including her parents, grandmother, brother and his children – who are currently stuck in Gaza.

Elizabeth El-Nakla (pictured), the mother-in-law of Scottish Prime Minister Humza Yousaf, released a moving video describing her desperate situation in Gaza, where she is trapped

Nadia El-Nakla spoke to the BBC and said she was “living in a nightmare” and was “afraid” of what might happen to her parents

Ms El-Nakla had seen television reports of bombings and recognized the area they were in and feared she had been hit, but was later able to contact her mother.

As the interview continued, he said: “(Nadia’s) family lives in a place called Deir Al-Balah, just outside Gaza City.”

“Nadia was watching Al-Jazeera Live – and Nadia traveled to Deir Al-Balah before the blockade – and she recognized the neighborhood, it was her neighborhood that was hit.”

“She couldn’t get in touch with her mother and father, so she was obviously very distressed.”

“But she, thank God, gave a message to her mother, saying, ‘Our neighborhood is getting hit, we haven’t been hit yet’.”

He added: “The Israeli government knows where our family is, they know the coordinates to some extent, so I hope they don’t get hit.”

Ms El-Nakla spoke to the BBC on Wednesday and said her parents constantly “felt like they were dying”.

In addition to her parents and her elderly grandmother, her brother, a doctor, has four children, the youngest of whom is just four weeks old.

Ms Yousaf had previously described “living in a nightmare” as her parents remained stuck in Gaza as Israel bombed the region following Hamas attacks.

They traveled from their home in Dundee to the Palestinian territories to visit Maged’s sick 92-year-old mother just days before Hamas terrorists launched their surprise attack on Israel.

Thousands of Israeli bombs have since fallen on the Gaza Strip in retaliation, leaving her with her four grandchildren in the besieged city of Deir al-Balah.

In an emotional cry for help, Elizabeth tearfully revealed that there was no food, water or electricity. She added: “I have four grandchildren in this house – a two-month-old baby, a four-year-old and two nine-year-old twins today.” Her birthday. I ask the world to help the Palestinians.”

Mr Yousaf’s wife, Nadia El-Nakla, said she was “scared” of what could happen and that it was becoming increasingly difficult to stay in touch with her parents as they struggled to charge their phones. In conversation with the BBC Speaking at Bute House, the First Minister’s official residence, she said her mother had not slept since Monday.

She said, “You are involved in a war situation.” My mother says there is constant bombing from land, sea and air. They are afraid, absolutely afraid of what is to come and what is happening right now as we speak.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the country was “at war” as his military began attacking targets in Gaza in response.

The war has already claimed at least 2,300 lives on both sides.

Nadia added: “Sometimes my arms feel like lead and it feels like I’m living in a nightmare for them. “So I can’t understand how they feel.”

Regarding Israeli warnings that Gaza would be “obliterated” in response to Hamas terror attacks, she said: “It makes me completely afraid that I will never see them again.”

On Tuesday, Mr Yousaf wrote to Foreign Minister James Cleverly, urging him to call on Israel to open a humanitarian corridor. He wrote: “Too many innocent people have already lost their lives as a result of these completely unjustified and illegitimate attacks by Hamas.”

“However, innocent men, women and children cannot and should not pay the price for the actions of a terrorist group.” Collective punishment of innocent civilians is unjustifiable and will not help create the conditions for peace in the region.

Elizabeth and Maged El-Nakla traveled from their home in Dundee to the Palestinian territories to visit Maged’s sick 92-year-old mother, just days before Hamas terrorists launched their surprise attack on Israel

“As a close friend and ally of Israel, I therefore call on the British government to call on the Israeli government to ensure the protection of innocent civilians and to introduce an immediate ceasefire to allow the safe passage of civilians across the Rafah border.”

“In addition, a humanitarian corridor to Gaza should be opened to provide supplies, including food, fuel, water and medical care, to civilians who are trapped and helpless and unable to escape.”

Mr Yousaf revealed earlier this week that his in-laws were trapped in Gaza by the Israeli military.

On Monday, Mr Yousaf told journalists: “As many know, my wife is Palestinian, her mother and father, my in-laws who live in Dundee, live in Scotland, they have been in Gaza and are currently trapped. “I’m afraid ‘in Gaza.’

They were visiting the 92-year-old “elderly and frail” mother of Mr Yousaf’s father-in-law when the Hamas attack took place and were ordered by Israeli authorities to leave the country because “Gaza will be virtually wiped out,” the First Minister said.

“Despite the best efforts of the British Foreign Office, no one, no one can guarantee them safe passage,” he said. “So I find myself in a situation where, frankly, night after night, day after day, we don’t know whether my mother-in-law and my father-in-law – who have nothing to do, as most Gazans don’t – with Hamas or some terrorist attack – whether they survive the night or not.”

Israel has continued to pressure the Gaza Strip, and the enclave’s residents face increasing insecurity after the territory’s only power plant was shut down. Pictured: Smoke rises from buildings in Gaza after an Israeli airstrike on Wednesday

Clouds of smoke rise from Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City as raging fighting continues between Israel and the Hamas movement

Mr Netanyahu has vowed to “crush and destroy” Hamas and warned that every member of the terror organization is a “dead man”.

During his late-night televised address, the Israeli prime minister accused Palestinian militants of beheading soldiers and raping women at the end of the fifth day of fighting.

His claims about the beheadings were not independently confirmed, but rescue workers and witnesses had described horrific scenes.

Israel has continued to pressure the Gaza Strip, with residents of the enclave facing increasing insecurity after the territory’s only power plant was shut down early this morning.

The country’s blockade has blocked supplies of fuel, food, water and medicine to the Palestinian territory, leaving Gaza’s 2.3 million residents without electricity, internet or running water.

According to the United Nations Palestinian Refugee Agency, 260,000 people are believed to have been displaced from Gaza by the Israeli bombing.