At least 17 Britons dead or missing as horrific tales of massacre emerge

Israeli woman hailed hero after arming friends to kill 25 Hamas terrorists

- Anthony France

A YOUNG couple planning their wedding next summer have been named as the latest victims of the Supernova music festival massacre — as Israel today continued to reel from the slaughter of 40 babies and young children at a kibbutz.

The news emerged as an official UK source told the BBC that 17 British nationals, including children, are feared dead or missing after the Hamas attack in Israel.

Dor Shafir’s British-born mother Miryam had issued a desperate plea for information about the 30-year-old and his fiancée Savion Kiper, 31.

Mrs Shafir, 55, held out hope her son would be found alive when a witness claimed to have seen the couple fleeing to their car as Hamas terrorists opened fire on crowds at the festival, killing 260 in the Negev desert on Saturday.

But Mr Shafir’s family said they were told yesterday that both their bodies had been discovered. Mrs Shafir, whose parents are from Reading and Dublin, had earlier urged the UK Government to get involved in efforts to trace British citizens. She said: “They should help stop this war crime from going on. There are hundreds of innocent people, women, children, young people, who are hostages in Gaza.”