‘My children were saying: Let them just kill us’: British doctor trapped in Gaza with family calls for ceasefire

UK citizen arrived in country with wife and three teenage children days before the Hamas assault on Israel

A British doctor trapped in Gaza with his young family after going there to visit his parents has called for UK parties to unite behind an immediate ceasefire, saying the way UK and world leaders were permitting the killing of Palestinian civilians, including children, would go down in history as a stain on humanity".

The doctor, who did not want to be named for fear of being targeted by the Israelis, arrived in Gaza with his wife and three teenage children three days before Hamas launched its murderous assault on 7 October, in which it killed about 1,300 Israelis and took more than 200 hostages.