A MAN has spoken of his fears for his wife after she was detained by the Israeli authorities during a charity mission.

Margaret Pacetta, 62, from Bishopbriggs, who is a founder member of the Glasgow Palestine Human Rights Campaign, is being held in a detention centre at Ben Gurion airport in Israel.

Margaret and her husband John are part of a group who raise money to support young Palestinians to attend university .

Margaret was planning to visit one of the students the couple have been supporting in a refugee camp in the West Bank, when she was detained.

It is understood she will be flown home on Thursday but her husband John has concerns about the conditions she is being kept in as she suffers from asthma.

Glasgow MSP Sandra White has been assisting Mr Pacetta to get information about his wife.

John said: "Margaret goes over now and again to see people she knows. She was going to try to see a young person in Hebron.

"She always struggles to get in and this time they took her and put her in a detention centre, where she is being held.

"The British consulate in Jerusalem called me and said she will be flown home on Thursday.

"We are concerned about the conditions she is being kept in and her health.

"She's got a type of asthma called Brittle Asthma which can come on very quickly."

The couple, hold a regular fund-raising stall in Glasgow City Centre, and have helped at least seven Palestinian students to graduate including a nurse, a film maker, a journalist, a physio and a GP.

They also fund medical assistance for poor families, medical needs, and disabled children.