Ex-Scotland first minister Humza Yousaf's parents-in-law readying ICC Gaza evidence

Relatives of Scotland's former first minister are readying evidence on Israel's war crimes for the International Criminal Court (ICC) after having been trapped in Gaza.

The parents of Humza Yousaf's wife were in the Palestinian enclave following the outbreak of Israel's war on the strip in October.

Elizabeth and Maged El-Nakba managed to return to Scotland nearly a month after the war started.

"The things they saw – of which they're compiling evidence for the [International Criminal Court] who want eye-witness accounts of what's happened in Gaza so they’re in the midst doing that – I think will live with them until their dying breath," Yousaf was quoted as saying by British media.

Yousaf, a member of the Scottish parliament, spoke of a story from his parents-in-law.

"My mother-in-law tells me of hearing a blast nearby, they thought the house had been hit, they went outside and lying in their front garden was an eight-year-old girl with a broken spine," he said.

Israel's war on Gaza has killed at least 39,699 people and injured over 91,000 others according to the coastal enclave's health ministry.

Hospitals, ambulances, and residential buildings have been attacked and South Africa has accused Israel of genocide at the International Court of Justice.

The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, in May requested arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif, and Ismail Haniyeh.

Haniyeh was assassinated in Iran in an attack Israel is widely believed to have carried out.