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Lieutenant colonel Richard Hecht, who was born and grew up near Glasgow, is international spokesman for the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) so family are "obviously concerned"

As the UN begged Israel and Hamas to stop targeting civilians, fears were growing for thousands of people, including women and children, caught up in the bitter conflict

One-time Apollon Limassol and Hapoel Tel Aviv centre-forward Lior Asulin was among at least 260 victims killed by Hamas during the Re'im music festival massacre

Israel international footballer Nir Bitton has hit out at a supporters group for his old club Celtic for their support of Palestine amid escalating conflict in the Middle East

The families of Brits Bernard Cowan and Dan Darlington say they died on Saturday in the Hamas terror attack in heartbreaking tributes after Corporal Nathanel Young, 20, was also confirmed dead

The Israeli Defence Forces announced that they received a report about "the infiltration of a number of suspects into Israeli territory from Lebanese territory"

Jake Marlowe, 26, a security guard at a music festival in Israel that was attacked by Hamas militants, left a pal a voicenote in which he described how he was helping to save festivalgoers from the gunshots

Jake Marlowe, 26, a security guard at a music festival in Israel that was attacked by Hamas militants, "wouldn't run" said pals but would stay and try and save others

More than 260 bodies have been found by rescue workers after the music festival in Israel was ambushed by Hamas militants, with the death toll expected to rise

The death toll has risen past 600 and is expected to keep growing as fighting continues and Israeli forces carry out air strikes across the Gaza Strip, one of the most densely populated places in the world

The Prime Minister spoke to his Israeli counterpart by phone and said the British Government would do whatever it could to help after at least 700 Israelis were killed

At least 600 people have reportedly been killed in Israel — a staggering toll on a scale the country has not seen in decades — and more than 300 have been killed in Gaza as Israeli forces retaliate

The 51-year old, who is married to former Home and Away star Isla Fisher, took to his Instagram to share a concerning message as tensions mount in the Middle East

Yogev Gamavi, an Israeli hairdresser who lives in the village of Yesha, near the border with Gaza, with his wife, his mother-in-law and three young children, described the murderous day

Aimee and Uriel Labban hid with 10-day-old baby Kai as Hamas fighters torched their house and cars in Nirim, one and a half miles from the Gaza border in Israel

The outdoor Nova Festival event in a rural farmland area near the Gaza-Israel border was supposed a time of carefree happiness, but soon turned to horror

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared war after the centre and south of Israel have been under sustained rocket fire for more than four hours today

Israel's ambassador to the UK Tzipi Hotovely told Sky News that there was a British national there 'at the moment' amid a spate of kidnappings by Hamas in Israel

Israel declared itself to be at war and launched hundreds of relentless retaliatory strikes, killing around 250 Palestinians and injuring over one thousand more

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Social media has been filled with videos showing Hamas fighters dragging lifeless Israeli soldiers on the ground and parading captured civilians through the streets of Gaza

More than 150 people in Israel have died after the Hamas group fired thousands of rockets as dozens of fighters infiltrated the heavily fortified border in several locations

Hamas militants fired thousands of rockets and sent dozens of fighters into Israeli towns near the Gaza Strip today in an unprecedented attack during a major Jewish holiday

Residents were shocked to see Hamas fighters using motorised paragliders to get over the border from Gaza into Israel - soldiers with guns were seen soaring through the sky on the hang gliders

A rampaging tourist from the United States has smashed precious and priceless ancient Roman statues in The Israel Museum in Jerusalem - saying they are 'blasphemous' and 'in violation of the Torah'

An underwater discovery off the coast of Israel has revealed a part of the Stonehenge story that could solve the age-old mystery. One diver found a circle fo rocks that eerily resembles the Wiltshire structure.