Palestinians evacuate a wounded man following what witnesses said was an Israeli air strike on a house in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.Reuters
The Foreign Office is "urgently" investigating reports that a British national has been killed in Israel's 'Operation Protective Edge' in Gaza.
The man, believed to be Kadir Islam from the Lancashire town of Rochdale, reportedly died in an Israeli air strike on the southern Gaza town of Rafah yesterday while carrying medical supplies to a nearby hospital.
"We are aware of the reports of the death of a British national in Rafah and are urgently looking into them," said a spokesman for the department.
There has been no official confirmation of a British aid worker's death as the Foreign Office investigation continues.
British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond had earlier said that the rising death toll caused by Israel's ground and air offensive had become "intolerable".
Hammond, recently promoted to the Foreign Office to replace the outgoing William Hague, said that there must be a humanitarian ceasefire between both sides.
"It's a broad swathe of British public opinion that feels deeply, deeply disturbed by what it is seeing on its television screens, coming out of Gaza.
"The British public has a strong sense that the situation in Gaza is simply intolerable and must be addressed - and we agree with them.
"There must be a humanitarian ceasefire that is without conditions. We have to get the killing to stop."
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