Missing British teenager, 13, confirmed dead after Hamas kibbutz massacre

One of two teenage British sisters has been found dead after Hamas militants stormed their family home in Israel, murdering her mother.

Relatives confirmed that Yahel Sharabi, 13, was no longer missing on Tuesday, after they were informed her body had been found.

Her sister Noiya, 16, is still missing.

Their mother, Lianne, 48, originally from Bristol, was killed in the attack, after Hamas terrorists attacked Kibbutz Be’eri.

Yahel’s mother Lianne was described by her family as a “a beloved daughter, sister, mother, aunt and friend who enriched the lives of all those lucky enough to have known and loved her”.

“She lived a beautiful life and will be sorely missed by the heartbroken family and friends she leaves behind,” they said.

The girls father Eli, 51, is also missing and his brother Yossi was seen being driven away by gunmen from his neighbouring home in the kibbutz, about two miles from the Gazan border.

She moved to Israel at the age of 19.

The girls’ uncles, Raz Matalon and Sharon Sharabi, had earlier told how they had received a series of panicked messages from Lianne on October 7 who told them she heard gunshots outside their home.

They told MailOnline: “She wrote that she heard gunshots outside her home. That people were screaming and calling in Arabic. And people running all over.

‘So they stayed in the safe room until they heard the terrorists had entered the house and tried to open the door.'”

It was at this moment all communication from Lianne and her family ceased, leaving her family waiting in vain for any news of their loved ones.

Meanwhile the body of another missing Israeli woman Sylvia Ohayon was also confirmed to have been found on Tuesday.

The terrible news emerged as two relatives of Ohayon had spoken to media in the UK, pleading for more to be done to bring the hostages captured by Hamas home.

Reut Mayor had said:”My 60 year-old aunt was kidnapped from her home in Kibbutz Be’eri on Saturday morning while she was in her safe room.

“She had mentioned to her daughter on the phone she had heard people speaking Arabic inside her home.”

Mayor revealed that her aunts phone signal had been picked up inside the Gaza Strip on Monday.

Earlier on Tuesday, the UK based relatives of Israelis kidnapped by Hamas had held a meeting with Labour leader Keir Starmer, shadow foreign secretary David Lammy and other members of the shadow cabinet.

Also on the delegation was Limor Sella Broyde who has 12 family members missing.

Foreign Office minister Andrew Mitchell said the Government is “extremely concerned” about British hostages being held by Hamas following the October 7 attacks and “we pray that they are alive”.

Mitchell told BBC Breakfast: “We mourn the six British hostages we know who have died and we are extremely concerned about the fate and the state of the other 10.”

He told Sky News: “We pray that they are alive.”

Mitchell was unable to elaborate on the efforts to secure their release, but insisted to LBC: “The entire resources of the British Government are involved in doing everything we can to get our citizens back.”

At least 1,400 people were killed, many of them civilians, and thousands more injured in Hamas’s attack.

More than 2,700 Palestinians have died as Israel launched air strikes on Gaza and cut off fuel, water, food and medical supplies from entering the cramped territory, which is home to more than two million people.

British officials are working to secure the opening of the Rafah crossing to allow Britons to flee to Egypt and for humanitarian aid to get into Gaza.

On Israel’s role, Mitchell told Times Radio: “It’s both a moral and a practical responsibility. We stand absolutely foursquare behind Israel’s right to defend itself, but all of us want to see the fighting contained.”

Mitchell told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that US President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel could be a “significant fillip” to getting humanitarian relief through.

The US president was travelling to Israel and Jordan on Wednesday amid concerns the Israel-Hamas war could spiral into a wider regional conflict.

As well as his talks in Israel, the US president will meet King Abdullah of Jordan, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.