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More than 370 Palestinians have perished and it is estimated that 600 Israelis have died. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu foresaw a "long and difficult war" in the future

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

Hersh Golberg-Polin was at rave in the Israel desert when Hamas attacked it on Saturday and was celebrated in the desert in northern Negev. He sent messages to his father before going silent

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Shani Louk was enjoying a music festival when she was reportedly kidnapped by militants in a horrific attack which has left nearly 500 people dead

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

Ilan Troen, a 83-year-old academic from Boston, told how his daughter and son-in-law were murdered on Saturday by attackers from the Gaza Strip

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

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

Former Tottenham and Liverpool striker Robbie Keane has been forced to flee Israel alongside Rory Delap, his assistant at Maccabi Tel Aviv, amid the Hamas' attack

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

Scotland Yard was urged to intervene as a video was posted on social media by Countdown presenter Rachel Riley which showed people waving Palestinian flags, beeping car horns and clapping in west London

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

Arab carpenter Abu Radia has met with Lucy Dee’s rabbi husband Leo, and thanked him for the extraordinary gift of love

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: The Hamas-controlled local police in the Gaza Strip confirmed the youngster was six-year-old Hamada Iqtiet, who was attacked after climbing through a protective fence

Tensions are rising in the region after days of unrest at Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site and a rare rocket attack from Lebanon, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issues an ominous statement