HUMZA Yousaf's wife Nadia El-Nakla told of her "complete despair" over the situation in Gaza in an emotional speech to SNP conference.
Delegates passed an emergency resolution condemning the terrorist attacks by Hamas and calling for the release of hostages, as well as respecting international law and rejecting "collective punishment" and innocent people paying the price for the actions of Hamas.
El-Nakla - whose parents are trapped in Gaza after travelling there before war broke out - spoke to the motion saying she felt like "her heart was turning to stone".
She said her mum - who said “her goodbyes” in a panicked call to the First Minister and his wife early on Sunday morning following a false alarm - had told her there had "not been a let up for more than 10 minutes" as she admitted to conference how she feared that Gaza may soon not exist and that 2.2 million people would die.
El-Nakla stressed how world leaders needed to do more to help innocent civilians.
She told SNP conference: "Instead of sending spy planes, the UK should be sending supplies. We are not watching a natural disaster. This can be stopped.
"What we are watching is an unimaginable horror. My brother is an ER [emergency room] doctor and the hospital is being overrun.
"Yesterday my cousin was out walking with friends, returned home and got a call asking if he was okay. He said he was fine, but the three friends he was just walking with had just been killed.
"Outside our home are massive football pitches where normally you see kids running around and now people are sleeping outside. Yet they are still dropping bombs on them.
"Families like mine are having to move and they are having to say goodbye to each other as if it’s the last time. My dad yesterday said goodbye to my grandmother for what we thought was the last time."
Visibly emotional, El-Nakla begged for peace and pleaded with world leaders to "use diplomacy".
She added: "Let us survive. Let us live in peace. I beg and plead, give the children of Gaza a chance of life. Let my niece and nephews survive. This can only happen when the world leaders use diplomacy instead of weaponising."
She embraced Yousaf at the end of her speech and was given a huge round of applause before the motion was passed.
Minister Christina McKelvie also spoke about the "horrible sights" we have seen on TV from Gaza and made a call to show love to Yousaf and his family.
