- Leeds teenager Bella Baker is among dozens of British nationals stranded in Israel after authorities closed the country’s airspace amid an escalation in its conflict with Iran.
- Bella, 15, travelled to Haifa with her mother for a family bar mitzvah but is now unable to come home due to the missile strikes.
- Bella’s father, Leslie Baker, said his daughter should be sitting her GCSE mock exams, but is instead experiencing air raid sirens and hiding in a bomb shelter.
- The Foreign Office has advised against all travel to Israel and urged British nationals to follow local authorities' advice, but with the airspace closed, some are considering land crossings to escape the conflict.
- Other British nationals are also stranded and calling for UK government repatriation flights.
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