to play me questions.

Chris Law.

Number one, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Speaker, I know the whole House will have been shot by the scenes at El Abley Hospital.

As my honourable friend, the Foreign Secretary, has said we are working independently and with our allies to find out what has happened.

I'm sure that honourable Members will be raising further questions with me during today's

session.

Mr Speaker, this morning I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others.

In addition to my duties in this House, I shall have further such meetings later today.

Mr. Law.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

I may associate myself and the whole of my party here with the horrors and unfolding tragedy of the bombing last night in Gaza of the hospital.

Here, here.

Mr. Speaker, the Rafa border crossing from besieged Gaza into Egypt has been hit by several Israeli airstrikes,

causing absolute terror for those who urgently need this crossing open to escape.

Nadia El Nacla, an elected council in my city of Dundee and the wife of Scotland's First

Minister, has had to take calls from her parents, Elizabeth and Majid, who, like all others

trapped in Gaza, have been describing the horrors of death and indiscriminate killings everywhere.

Members of our family were hit yesterday by a rocket from a drone and Nadia's mother

was saying a final goodbyes this morning, adding, last night was the end for me. Better if my

heart stops and then I'll be at peace. I can't take another night. Mr. Speaker, with military

action intensifying and the death toll rapidly rising, the Prime Minister's

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