The mother-in-law of Scotland First Minister Humza Yousaf, Elizabeth El-Nakla, has made a desperate appeal for help to the world from Gaza as Israel calls for civilians to leave the city.

“This will be my last video, everybody from Gaza is moving towards where we are, one million people, no food, no water – and still they’re bombing them as they leave.,” she said in a video statement shared by her son-in-law on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Friday.

Israel’s military has called for all civilians of Gaza City, more than 1 million people, to relocate south within 24 hours, as it amassed tanks for an expected ground invasion in response to a devastating attack by the militant group Hamas.

The United Nations said evacuating everyone was impossible with power supplies cut and food and water in the Palestinian enclave running short after a week of retaliatory air strikes and a full Israeli blockade.

“Where are we going to put them?” asked the retired nurse from Dundee, Scotland.

She, like the vast majority of people in Gaza, has nothing to do with Hamas, her son-in-law said while sharing the video on social media. Yousaf said that she has been told to leave Gaza but, like the rest of the population, is trapped with nowhere to go.

“But my thought is - all these people in the hospital cannot be evacuated,” she added.

“Where is humanity? Where’s people’s hearts in the world, to let this happen in this day and age? May God help us, goodbye.”

The video comes a day after STV News reported that Yousaf’s wife, Nadia El-Nakla, interrupted an interview in tears fearing the home her family in Gaza were staying in had been bombed.

Her parents, Elizabeth and Maged El-Nakla, travelled to Gaza last week to visit his 93-year-old mother when Hamas attacked Israel, triggering retaliatory attacks from Israel.

Yousaf was due to speak to various media outlets on Thursday ahead of the party’s conference in Aberdeen this weekend.

In the early minutes of the interview, El-Nakla entered the room, sobbing. She told the first minister that she could not contact her family, whom they had been speaking to just hours before.

Yousaf – although visibly shaken by the news – insisted the interview go ahead.

When the interview resumed, he said: “[Nadia’s] family live in a place called Deir Al-Balah, it’s just outside Gaza City.

“Nadia was watching Al-Jazeera Live – and Nadia used to travel to Deir Al-Balah before the blockade – and she recognised the neighbourhood, it was their neighbourhood being hit.”

El-Nakla told the BBC on Wednesday that her parents continually “feel like they are going to die”.