India, June 15 -- A British grandfather stranded in Jerusalem during a wave of Iranian missile attacks has described the city as a "ghost town" and said he feels "abandoned" by the Foreign Office.

James Eden, 72, from Newcastle upon Tyne, flew to Israel on Monday for a short pilgrimage to visit Christian sites he first saw two decades ago. But what was meant to be a six-day trip turned into a crisis when air raid sirens woke him in the early hours of Friday when his flight home was cancelled following Israeli strikes on Iran and a barrage of retaliatory missiles.

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"It feels very eerie, very strange - like a ghost town," the grandfather-of-four said. "Before, it was a hive of activity - cars everywhere, everyone ...