Briton reported killed in strike in Gaza

Smoke rises after an explosion in Gaza. Photograph: Siegfried Modola/Reuters

The Foreign Office is urgently investigating reports that a British national has been killed in Gaza.

The man, said to be from Rochdale, apparently died in an Israeli strike on the town of Rafah on Sunday.

A spokesman for the department said: "We are aware of the reports of the death of a British national in Rafah and are urgently looking into them."

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