{"id":243976,"date":"2023-12-17T12:36:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T12:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/?p=243976"},"modified":"2023-12-17T12:36:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T12:36:21","slug":"mp-layla-moran-says-family-members-in-gaza-are-days-away-from-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/world-news\/mp-layla-moran-says-family-members-in-gaza-are-days-away-from-dying\/","title":{"rendered":"MP Layla Moran says family members in Gaza are &apos;days away from dying&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> British MP Layla Moran says members of her family are &#8216;days from dying&#8217; as they remain trapped in Gaza church where elderly woman and daughter were &#8216;shot dead by Israeli sniper&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A gunman reportedly killed two and wounded seven inside the church complex<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>British MP Layla Moran has said members of her family are &#8216;days away from dying&#8217; as they are trapped inside a church in northern Gaza where an elderly woman and her daughter were killed yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Two women, named as Nahida and Samar, were shot dead &#8216;in cold blood&#8217; by an Israeli sniper while inside the grounds of the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza City, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said.<\/p>\n<p>It said in a statement that a gunman had killed the pair at around midday on Saturday, revealing that &#8216;one was killed as she tried to carry the other to safety&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They had been given no warning and were killed as they were walking towards a convent &#8216;inside the premises of the Parish, where there are no belligerents,&#8217; the church said.\u00a0It\u00a0added that seven more people were shot and wounded yesterday as they &#8216;tried to protect others inside the church compound&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Christian families have been sheltering in the complex since the war erupted, with members of Ms Moran&#8217;s extended family &#8211; a grandmother, her son, his wife and their 11-year-old twins &#8211; among the dozens taking refuge as battles rage outside.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/17\/12\/79054353-12873743-Liberal_Democract_MP_Layla_Moran_said_her_family_have_been_stayi-a-42_1702815086500.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Liberal Democract MP Layla Moran said her family have been staying on mattresses along with dozens of others in the Holy Family Church since the early days of the war<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/17\/11\/79054441-12873743-image-m-26_1702814002850.jpg\" height=\"541\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Two women, named as Nahida and Samar, were killed &#8216;in cold blood&#8217; by an Israeli sniper, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/17\/11\/79054355-12873743-image-a-27_1702814036615.jpg\" height=\"426\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>File image shows a man decorating a Christmas tree outside the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Family in Gaza City on December 20, 2020<\/p>\n<p>Ms Moran said her family have been staying on mattresses along with dozens of others in the Catholic church for more than 60 days.<\/p>\n<h3>MP Layla Moran&#8217;s family<\/h3>\n<p>Layla Moran is Britain&#8217;s first ever Palestinian MP.<\/p>\n<p>Her immediate family are Palestinian Christians from the West Bank, while she has extended family members in Gaza City.<\/p>\n<p>She has spoken about her family members being trapped in Gaza &#8211; and how she and her sister are trying to get news from their relatives every day as they run out of food and have been reduced to drinking water.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ms Moran&#8217;s mother Randa is Palestinian while her father James is British. He joined the EU Commission when she was one and the family moved to Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>Her mother&#8217;s family are originally Greek but they moved to Palestine and then Jordan after the diaspora in the 60s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her great-grandfather was the Palestinian writer Wasif Jawhariyyeh, who wrote memoirs about Palestinian life under Ottoman and British rule.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A sixth member of her extended family in Gaza City &#8211; a grandfather &#8211; reportedly died last month after he was unable to reach hospital for medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;m now no longer sure they are going to survive until Christmas,&#8217; Ms Moran, who has been in contact with her family over the weeks, told the BBC yesterday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She said earlier this week that her relatives had told her that two men &#8211; a janitor and bin collector &#8211; were killed by gunmen as they walked to and from the building.<\/p>\n<p>Terrified of being killed themselves, people inside the church have reportedly been unable to collect the bodies, which have remained decaying in the street for days.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Liberal Democrat MP for Oxford West and Abingdon has been drawing attention to the plight of Palestinians trapped in Gaza amid Israel&#8217;s unrelenting bombardment of the enclave.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She has spoken in Parliament about her extended family in Gaza City having their house bombed by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), staying in a church and being &#8216;too old&#8217; to flee the 25-mile strip.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The latest reported deaths will add to fears for Christian Palestinians trapped in the church, and there has been outrage from around the world following Saturday&#8217;s attack.<\/p>\n<p>Italy&#8217;s top diplomat Antonio Tajani issued a &#8216;heartfelt appeal to the Israeli government and army to protect Christian places of worship,&#8217; writing on X:\u00a0&#8216;That is\u00a0not where the Hamas terrorists are hiding.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Hammam Farah, a family friend of Nahida and Samar said on X: &#8216;This is a targeted death campaign during the Christmas season on the world&#8217;s oldest Christian community.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/17\/12\/79041375-12873743-A_view_of_partially_destroyed_building_belonging_to_Beshir_famil-a-43_1702815314507.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A view of partially destroyed building belonging to Beshir family and located on Salah al-Din Road after Israeli attacks in Gaza City, Gaza on December 16<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/17\/12\/79053663-12873743-image-a-46_1702815458700.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Civil defense teams carry out search and rescue operations under debris of destroyed buildings after Israeli airstrike in Rafah, Gaza on December 17<\/p>\n<p>Gaza&#8217;s Christians are among the oldest established communities in the Middle East, with their origins dating back to the first century.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But there numbers have dwindled since Hamas took complete control of the territory in 2007, falling from 3,000 to around 1,000, Al Jazeera reports.<\/p>\n<p>The IDF has been approached for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12873743\/MP-Layla-Moran-family-dying-trapped-Gaza-church-woman-daughter-dead-Israeli-sniper.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British MP Layla Moran says members of her family are &#8216;days from dying&#8217; 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