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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Nadia Khomami

MP Layla Moran fears family trapped in Gaza church ‘will not survive until Christmas’

Layla Moran
Moran said her family, who have been in the church for 60 days, were ‘absolutely terrified’. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

“I fear my family under siege by Israeli forces in a church in Gaza will not survive until Christmas, between the snipers and the lack of water.”

Those were the stark words of Layla Moran, the MP for Oxford and Abingdon whose extended Christian Palestinian family members are among those who have been trapped inside the Holy Family church complex in Gaza City for 60 days.

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