A SCOTTISH-PALESTINIAN woman who fears for the lives of her family in Gaza has expressed “disappointment” it has taken the deaths of three Britons in the region to spark a change in tone from the Government.

Glasgow charity worker Doa’a Abu Amer, whose mother, sister and brother are seeking refuge in Rafah, said that “all lives matter” and slammed the UK Government for appearing to “differentiate” the lives of Palestinians and Britons.

It comes after three UK citizens working for a food charity in Gaza were killed by Israeli airstrikes.

The tragic incident sparked the strongest rhetoric yet from the UK Government in the latest phase of the decades-old conflict between Israel and Palestine.

Abu Amer (below), who left Gaza six years ago, said she believed the Government’s new tougher talk about Israel came only as a result of the state killing three Britons last week.

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She told the Sunday National: “This is another disappointment for me as a Palestinian, as an ethnic minority person in the UK. I have been calling for the last six months to save my people - to protect the civilians, to stop the war, to stop the genocide, to stop the killing - and all our calls weren’t considered until this affected British citizens.”

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She said it seemed to her that the UK Government considered the “lives of certain people” to be “more important than others”.

But Abu Amer, originally from Khan Yunis, said she was pleased by any change in the UK’s stance, praising the public’s support for a ceasefire.

And she said she had been saddened by the deaths of the three aid workers who had travelled to Palestine “to support civilians who are facing starvation”.

“It is a good reaction from the public to see [they] are now raging, they are angry,” she said.

Since the latest round of hostilities broke out in October, public opinion has been behind calls for an immediate ceasefire, with the UK and American governments holding out against this option.

Abu Amer described the situation in the region as being “one massacre after another”, with more than 32,000 Palestinians killed to date.

But she urged the public to keep the pressure on the Government, expressing concerns about whether the outrage over the conflict would last.

“Is it a wave for a week or so and then it’s going to be silent again?” she asked.

“We hope this is not what is going to happen, we hope this is going to continue, people to be outspoken and putting pressure and writing to their MPs to put pressure on the Government to stop this, to hold Israel accountable.”

Israel, she believed, has crossed Britain’s “red lines” by killing UK citizens – but she expressed concern that this was what it appeared to have taken for the British Government to toughen its stance.

“For me, it’s disappointing because all lives matter, we should not have this kind of differentiation,” she said.

After facing intense international pressure last week, Israel on Friday sacked two senior officers over the killing of the British aid workers, while three others were “formally reprimanded”.

The Israeli Defence Forces claimed military officials “were convinced that they were targeting armed Hamas operatives”.

And Israel was facing more international pressure after the UN Human Rights Council voted to call for arms sales to the country to be suspended.

The UK Government is also reportedly considering the suspension of arms sales over concerns politicians and officials could become complicit in war crimes.