Israeli forces cross a main road in their armored personnel carrier (APC) as additional troops are deployed near the southern city of Sderot on October 8, 2023. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned of a "long and difficult" war, as fighting with Hamas left hundreds dead on both sides after a surprise attack on Israel by the Palestinian militant group on October 7.
The family of Cpl. Nathaniel Young, a 20-year-old British man serving in the Israel Defense Force (IDF), told reporters that he was killed in the Palestinian attacks on Saturday (October 7).
Young's family explained that he was deployed on Israel's border with Gaza when Hamas launched its unprecedented attack that left him and hundreds of others killed or taken hostage.
Young was a former student at the JFS Jewish School in Kenton, north of London, and had been living in the Bayit Shel Benji lone-soldier house in Raanana.
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The Israeli embassy in London has also reported that a 26-year-old British national named Jake Marlowe, who attended the same school as Young, was among the missing after Hamas attacked a dance music festival close to the Israel-Gaza border.
The embassy told The Independent they could not confirm whether Marlowe was taken hostage or killed.
Marlowe's mother, Lisa, said her son was part of the security team at the party near Kibbutz Re'im when Palestinian rockets and missiles flew over the venue. Since then, Marlowe provided information about the situation on the ground.
His final message to his mother read: "Signal very bad, everything OK, will keep you updated I promise you."
Lisa could not contact her son since then.
British Secretary of State for Transport Mark Harper told Sky News the UK was closely working with the Israeli government about British citizens who might be in the region of concern but said he had no specific information on reports about Marlowe's disappearance.
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