'It's outrageous' - Israeli Minister who uses wheelchair denied entry to Cop26 venue

The SEC Armadillo, one of the venues for the Cop26 summit. File Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

An Israeli minister has described how she was denied entry to the Cop26 summit because as a wheelchair user she was unable to access the Glasgow venue, criticising the refusal to accommodate her as “outrageous”.

Karine Elharrar, Israel’s energy and water resources minister, who has muscular dystrophy, waited for two hours outside after organisers refused to let her enter the compound in the vehicle in which she had arrived, she said.