This up from the previous estimate of ‘more than 10’ (Picture: AFP)
There are at least 17 dead or missing Brits including children in Israel following the Hamas attack.
This up from the previous estimate of ‘more than 10’, the BBC reports.
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The conflict has had an immediate global impact, with several countries reporting nationals killed, abducted or missing.
Among them are the UK, the US, Brazil, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, Nepal, Thailand and Ukraine.
Among those killed was 20-year-old Nathanel Young, a Briton serving in the Israeli Defence Services (IDF) who died on the Gaza border on Saturday.
Another includes Bernard Cowan, a Cottish grandfather who settled in the country with his family.
Two other UK nationals – 26-year-old Jake Marlowe, who went to the same school in London as Mr Young, and photographer Dan Darlington – are also believed to be missing.
Corporal Nathanel Young died on Saturday, just hours after Hamas terrorists launched their attack
Jake Marlowe attended the music festival in Israel stormed by Hamas
Since the start of the invasion at least 1,200 have been killed in Israel while officials in Gaza say 900 people have been killed.
At least 140 Palestinian children have been killed by the Israeli military as they launched an offensive on Gaza over the weekend, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Hundreds of Israelis have also been abducted as they attacked towns on Saturday.
Danny Darlington, a creative portrait photographer based in Berlin, and his German friend, Carolin ‘Caro’ Bohl
The number of displaced people in the Strip has gone up by nearly 100,000 in the last 24 hours, taking the total to 260,000, and Unicef has urged for a humanitarian corridor to be established.
At least 30 people were killed overnight in Aaza as Israeli warplanes pounded the strip ahead of a possible ground offensive to root out Hamas fighters.
Israel said dozens of its fighter jets struck more than 200 targets in a neighbourhood of Gaza City that it said had been used by the group to launch its attacks.
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