Hamas attack survivor grilled by border cop: 'I don't feel safe in the UK'

Two Israeli brothers who survived the Nova music festival massacre by Hamas are returning home early from Britain on Tuesday after they were aggressively questioned on arrival at Manchester Airport.

Home Secretary James Cleverly said he was investigating a Border Force officer’s treatment of Daniel Sharabi, 23, and Neria Sharabi, 22, which was partially captured on video.

Neria Sharabi, who says they both suffer PTSD as a result of the murderous Hamas attacks, demanded an apology from the UK Government and the dismissal of the Border Force officer after they were grilled for two hours before they were allowed into the country on Sunday.

“But I don’t feel safe to walk about in England if this is how the cops treat us. I never want to come back to England,” he said, explaining they were meant to be staying for a week but had decided to cut short their trip.

The footage shown on social media shows a male, white Border Force officer speaking forcefully to the brothers on their arrival off a flight from Brussels. He tells them to “keep quiet, look at me…” and states: "We are the bosses, not you."

Neria Sharabi said: “When he learned we are Israeli, we are Jewish, the officer just changed his face and it became antisemitism. He took us away from other people and started to interrogate us.

“He was saying ‘did you serve in the army, how long? He said ‘we want to make sure you’re not going to do here what you are doing in Gaza’.”

The survivor said: “I want to see him not working any more and I want an apology to us and to all the Jewish people from the Government, from the border police.”

The Home Secretary tweeted: “We are investigating this."

A spokesperson for Manchester Airport stressed that immigration responsibility at its entry points lay with Border Force but underlined: “This incident was clearly really serious and we support the Home Office in its investigation.”

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