Hamas victim, 66, identified as British

Teacher among 18 named in UK report

- Christopher McKeon

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