A VICTIM of Hamas’s October 2023 attack on Israel has been identified as British, bringing the total number of UK casualties to 18.
Teacher Rotem Kalderon, a 66-year-old dual UK-Israeli national and a grandmother of three, had not previously been named in lists of British victims. However, 18 months on she has been identified as such in a report commissioned by MPs and peers into the events of October 7.
Lifelong Kibbutz Be’eri resident Ms Kalderon was unidentified for two weeks after the terrorists struck the Israeli settlement, which is three miles from the Gaza Strip.
Sixteen victims of the initial attack had already been identified as British, along with a further UK citizen, 51-year-old Nadav Popplewell, who died while being held hostage by Hamas gunmen.
Barbaric
His brother, Roi Popplewell, 54, was killed at his home, while their 79-year-old mother Channah Peri was also taken hostage but released in November 2023.
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Israel commissioned historian and Conservative peer Lord Roberts last January to try to establish the exact sequence of events on October 7.
In his newly published report, Lord Roberts said Hamas and its allies “have sought to deny the atrocities, despite the ironic fact that much of the evidence for the massacres derives from film footage from cameras carried by the terrorists themselves”.
He added: “The present report has been undertaken to counter such pernicious views, and to lay down incontrovertible proof — for now and for the years to come — that nearly 1,200 innocent people were indeed murdered by Hamas and its allies, and very often in scenes of sadistic barbarism not seen in world history since the Rape of Nanji...
Teacher Rotem Kalderon, a 66-year-old dual UK-Israeli national and a grandmother of three, had not previously been named in lists of British victims. However, 18 months on she has been identified as such in a report commissioned by MPs and peers into the events of October 7.
Lifelong Kibbutz Be’eri resident Ms Kalderon was unidentified for two weeks after the terrorists struck the Israeli settlement, which is three miles from the Gaza Strip.
Sixteen victims of the initial attack had already been identified as British, along with a further UK citizen, 51-year-old Nadav Popplewell, who died while being held hostage by Hamas gunmen.
Barbaric
His brother, Roi Popplewell, 54, was killed at his home, while their 79-year-old mother Channah Peri was also taken hostage but released in November 2023.
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Israel commissioned historian and Conservative peer Lord Roberts last January to try to establish the exact sequence of events on October 7.
In his newly published report, Lord Roberts said Hamas and its allies “have sought to deny the atrocities, despite the ironic fact that much of the evidence for the massacres derives from film footage from cameras carried by the terrorists themselves”.
He added: “The present report has been undertaken to counter such pernicious views, and to lay down incontrovertible proof — for now and for the years to come — that nearly 1,200 innocent people were indeed murdered by Hamas and its allies, and very often in scenes of sadistic barbarism not seen in world history since the Rape of Nanji...
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