Actor Nushrratt Bharuccha is on her way back home to India after being stranded in Israel after war broke out in the country against Hamas militants.

Nushrratt was in Israel to participate in Haifi Film Festival. With the help of the Embassy, she is being brought back home. However, she will be taking a connecting flight. 

Her publicist shared: “We have finally managed to get in touch with Nushrratt and with the help of the Embassy, she is being safely brought back home. We did not get a direct flight so she is on a connecting flight home.”

“For her further safety, more details cannot be shared but as soon as she lands in India, we will inform you. We are relieved and thank God that she is safe and on her way to India.”

The war between Israel and Hamas has intensified. With the overnight rocket attacks by Hamas, Israel has started attacking Gaza in retaliation. Israel has also used bulldozers on Hamas positions.

Hamas is an Islamist organisation with a military wing that came into being in 1987, emerging out of the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group that was founded in the late 1920s in Egypt.

Hamas, meanwhile, controls the Gaza Strip, an enclave that is home to nearly two million Palestinians and is frequently the site of civilian casualties when fighting flares between militants and Israeli forces.

On the film front, Nushrratt was last seen in Akelli. In the film she plays a girl who gets stuck in Iraq as war breaks out in the country.