A British man is lacking after Hamas attacked a music pageant in Israel, the nation’s embassy within the UK has instructed Sky News.
Jake Marlowe, 26, has not been heard from since Saturday morning, the embassy stated.
It stated he was “missing near Gaza” after the assault on the pageant in southern Israel.
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Mr Marlowe’s mom instructed the Jewish News her son was working as a part of the safety crew on the dance pageant close to Re’im – a village near the Gaza border.
“He was doing security at this rave and called me at 4.30am to say all these rockets were flying over,” she stated.
“Then, at about 5.30am, he texted to say, ‘signal very bad, everything OK, will keep you updated I promise you,’ and that he loves me.”
She stated her son lived in Ma’alot, in northern Israel, having moved to the nation completely two years in the past.
Other individuals on the pageant instructed Israeli media how the music was interrupted by air raid sirens, earlier than Hamas militants opened fireplace.
“The music stopped and there was a rocket siren,” a lady instructed Israel’s N12 News.
“Suddenly, out of nowhere, they started shooting.”
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Another party-goer, Esther Borochov, stated a automobile rammed her automobile as she tried to flee.
She stated she performed useless till Israeli troopers arrived: “I couldn’t move my legs,” she instructed Reuters information company.
“Soldiers came and took us away to the bushes.”
Meanwhile, German media reported that German citizen Shani Louk is amongst these lacking.
The destiny of the younger girl, who’s reported to have been kidnapped by Hamas militants, has not been confirmed.
The girl’s mom has appealed for any details about her daughter’s whereabouts in a video posted on social media.
The mom stated she might “clearly recognise” her daughter in a video being extensively circulated on-line.
In an interview with German newspaper Bild, family in Germany stated they hoped Ms Louk is alive and will likely be launched.
It additionally emerged on Sunday {that a} British man serving within the Israeli military had been killed in an assault by Hamas militants.
Corporal Nathanel Young, 20, from London, was a soldier within the thirteenth Battalion, in keeping with the Israeli Defence Forces.
He was dwelling in a house for lone IDF troopers in Raanana, north of Tel Aviv, in keeping with the Jewish News.
His household stated on Facebook they have been “heartbroken” and that he had been killed “on the Gaza Border yesterday [Saturday].”
Soldiers and civilians kidnapped
The Israeli embassy to the US stated ladies and youngsters have been amongst greater than 100 troopers and civilians kidnapped by Hamas fighters and that energetic hostage conditions have been “ongoing”.
Tzipi Hotovely, Israel’s ambassador to the UK, instructed Sky News on Sunday that her nation was “doing everything to make sure all the people being kept hostage at the moment in the hands of Hamas will be released”.
Ms Hotovely stated Israel had woken to a “nightmare” after Hamas launched its shock assault on Saturday.
She stated 300 Israelis have been “brutally, barbarically murdered in cold blood” by individuals who deliberate essentially the most “calculated way” to invade.
Children have been taken from their properties to Gaza, whereas individuals with dementia have been “taken hostage”, she added.
On Sunday afternoon, Israeli media reported that 500-600 of the nation’s residents had died.
Meanwhile, an Israeli navy official stated “hundreds” of Hamas militants had been killed and dozens captured in retaliatory assaults.
The Palestinian well being ministry stated on Sunday morning that at the very least 313 individuals had died, together with 20 youngsters.
It added that just about 2,000 have been wounded in Gaza, with seven individuals, together with a baby, killed by Israeli fireplace within the West Bank.
Source: information.sky.com”