Fifteen -year -old Bela Baker should be in a classroom in Leeds, starting its GCSE mock exams.
Instead, she is facing terror Israel-Iran struggle. As she is stuck in a hotel in Northern Israeli Port Haifa, where 30 people were injured in a morning missile attack in the city on Monday.
Along with their mother, the pair is one of the dozens of British citizens who are unable to return home from Israel after the authorities shut down the country’s airspace for landing and takeoff. Warfare,
The pair had traveled to Israel for the age-old ceremony in Jewish religion last Tuesday, once the family had a visit to Israel for Mitjwa, but the plan to come home on Sunday changed after Israel’s amazing attack on Friday.
The attack resulted in an attack on a week’s end Between the two countries. And Monday morning, Iran fired A new wave of missiles on Tel Aviv and Haifa, killing eight people.
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Now Bella and her mother are Living in a battlefield In Haifa, and unable to get a flight or boat house, Bella’s father, Leslie Baker said.
Leeds North East MP in an email sent to Fabian Hamilton, which has been seen IndependentThe Technology Advisor said: “My daughter is now getting used to a new normal, siren and bomb shelters at 3 o’clock, then to stay near a shelter at all times.
“The beaches and professional areas are closed and described it as ‘returning to Kovid’, which stays in a room waiting for the next siren. If she stays for a long time, she must be learning how to put on the gas mask, she should need to be needed like every other child in Israel.
“He should not be there. He should not be in a war zone. Bella should start her mock with the rest of her year’s rest here.”
Mr. Baker told Independent He was in touch with his daughter on WhatsApp and used an app to receive information for rocket alert. To provide him a home comfort, he streams the reality show Love island On Sunday night, while sitting in the bomb shelter of his hotel, on his phone on the phone.
Bella and her mother are living in a hotel close to a relative’s house, where they are getting food supply.
Mr. Baker, who is also worried that Bella will get out of the medicine, she will take only in the week, she said: “She is scared. She is never in this position before and she is young. She wants to come home, see her friends and go back to school.”
foreign Office Has updated its guidance Advice against all visit to IsraelWarning that the situation may “go ahead, quickly and without warning”. In Israel, British citizens are urged to follow the advice of local authorities.
But with the closure of the airspace and the UK government is yet to provide any indication to provide repatriation flights, some British citizens are considering taking land crossings in Egypt to avoid war.
However, Mr. Baker said that crossing borders in neighboring countries for his daughter took a “significant dangerous risk”.
He has called upon the UK government to provide flights to bring strands to his former-partner and daughter, house.
He said: “The UK government has to do something, it can simply sit and do nothing. Boats should be put up to bring people into Cyprus. In the present situation, you cannot just leave British citizens, who are feeling scared, not out in the country without any support or manner.”
Others are also calling flights by the UK government.
31 -year -old Comedian Zach Margolin, 31 -year -old North London, was in Tel Aviv for his birthday, when the conflict increased. He told Many times: “Ideally the UK government should be placed on a reversion flight,” said Margolin. “The only update [from the Foreign Office] Israel does not go. ,
72-year-old grandfather James Eden of Newcastle was in Jerusalem for a six-day Christian pilgrimage. He told PA: “They (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) played me and said that they could not do much. They could not put on any aircraft because the airspace is closed – they can all send alerts and keep us tracks.”
Mr. Eden is now considering traveling on the land border in Egypt.
Foreign Secretary David Lemi posted on X: “My message is clear for British citizens – your safety is our top priority.”
A spokesman for a foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) said: “FCDO advises against all travels in Israel and occupied Palestinian areas. British citizens should continue to follow the advice of local authorities.”
