The father and brother of Jay Slater, the British teenager missing in Tenerife since Monday, have made emotional pleas for his safe return.

Warren Slater, the 19-year-old’s father, told Sky News he is “just hoping that somebody has helped him off this mountain”.

He added: “That’s all I want, that somebody has helped him get off this mountain. I just want him back and that’s it. He’s my son.”

His voice cracking, Mr Slater said the last few days have been “a nightmare, just a nightmare”.

Struggling to control his emotions, he then walked away from the camera as he repeated: “I just want him back and that’s it.”

Mr Slater’s brother, Zak Slater, echoed those words, saying: “We don’t know where he is, what’s happened, or anything. I don’t know what to say. We just want him to come home safe.”

He also became emotional as he said: “I just wish he’d come home.”

The pair have gone to Tenerife to help search for Jay, who was holidaying with friends before he disappeared. He had been at the NRG music festival with two friends on Sunday.

He was last heard from just after 8am on Monday, when he called his friend Lucy Law to say he was setting off to walk back to his accommodation after missing a bus.

It’s not clear whether he realised the journey could take as much as 11 hours.

Ms Law said he told her he was lost, in need of water, and only had 1% charge on his phone.

On Saturday, the sixth day of the search, police, rescue dogs and firefighters reconvened at Rural de Teno Park, the last location logged by Mr Slater’s phone.

Mr Slater is from the Lancashire town of Oswaldtwistle, where specialist officers are continuing to support his family, Lancashire Constabulary said.

The force added it had made “an offer of support to the Guardia Civil to see if they need any additional resources”, which was rejected by Spanish authorities.

Missing teen’s mum has ‘not slept’

The apprentice bricklayer’s mother, who is also on the island, the largest in the Canary Islands, also made a direct plea to her missing son, saying: “We just need you home.”

Debbie Duncan said she has “not slept” since he disappeared.

Asked how the family was coping with the situation, she said: “We’re not. I’m not coping very well at all. I’ve not slept, I’m exhausted. It’s been awful. I can’t give up on him, I just can’t.”

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Asked by the Press Association if her head was spinning from the past few days, she said: “It is, it is.

“People say: ‘Yeah, I understand’ – no, you don’t, you don’t understand.”

Speaking about what message she would have for her son, Ms Duncan added: “We just need you home – we just need him home.”

At least 42 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza, the director of the Hamas-run government media office has said.

An Israeli strike on houses in Al Shati refugee camp in Gaza City killed 24 people, Ismail Al Thawabta told Reuters.

Another 18 Palestinians were killed in a strike on houses in the city’s Al Tuffah neighbourhood, he added.

The Israeli military confirmed in a statement on Saturday that IDF fighter jets “struck two Hamas military infrastructure sites in the area of Gaza City”, while saying it would release more details later.

Hamas did not comment on whether its military infrastructure had been hit, as per the Israeli claim.

Hamas said the attacks targeted the civilian population. The group vowed in a statement: “The occupation and its Nazi leaders will pay the price for their violations against our people.”

Footage showed dozens of Palestinians rushing to search for victims amid the destroyed houses in the Shati refugee camp.

It comes after the Hamas-run health ministry said at least 25 Palestinians were killed in Mawasi in western Rafah and 50 wounded on Friday.

Palestinians said a tank shell hit a tent housing displaced families.

The Israeli military said: “An initial inquiry conducted suggests that there is no indication that a strike was carried out by the IDF [Israel Defence Forces] in the Humanitarian Area in Al Mawasi.”

Strike in Lebanon and shooting in West Bank

A separate Israeli strike in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley on Saturday killed a member of the military wing of the Islamic Group, a Sunni Muslim faction closely allied with Hamas, according to the group.

It was the seventh member killed by Israeli strikes since the war began.

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Meanwhile, an Israeli man was shot dead in a Palestinian town in the northern West Bank, according to Israel’s army.

The army said the man was pronounced dead in the town of Qalqilya and Israeli troops were currently occupying the area.

Israeli forces shot dead two militants in the same West Bank town on Friday.

Israeli nationals are prohibited from entering the town and other areas of the West Bank that fall under the authority of the Palestinian Authority (PA).

There have been flare-ups of violence in the West Bank since the Israel-Hamas war erupted last October.

Since then at least 549 Palestinians in the territory have been killed by Israeli fire, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.

In the same period of time, Palestinians in the West Bank have killed at least nine Israelis, including five soldiers, according to UN data.

Hamas says more than 37,500 Palestinians killed in Gaza

The war between Israel and Hamas erupted when Hamas militants attacked southern Israel, killing around 1,200 people and taking 250 others hostage.

Israel bombed and invaded Gaza in response, killing more than 37,500 people there, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between combatants and civilians in its count.

After more than eight months of war, Israel’s advance is focused on the last two areas its forces are yet to seize: Rafah on Gaza’s southern edge and the area surrounding Deir Al Balah in the centre of the territory.

The mother of Jay Slater, the British teenager missing in Tenerife, says she spent eight hours in a police station on Friday as police outlined their search plans.

Debbie Duncan told the Guardian she still thinks “something untoward” may have happened to her son.

She flew to the Spanish island on Tuesday, the day after the 19-year-old went missing, to help look for him.

On Saturday, the sixth day of the search, police, rescue dogs and firefighters reconvened at Rural de Teno Park, the last location logged by Mr Slater’s phone.

Ms Duncan told the Guardian police have said the “noise” around the case was affecting their investigation, but said she believes they are “stepping up” their search.

It comes after reports somebody logged into Mr Slater‘s Instagram account who was not him.

Rachel Louise Harg set up a GoFundMe page to go towards search efforts and a Facebook page to help find him, which had raised more than £26,000 of its £30,000 target by Saturday afternoon.

She said people who had been “hacking” the social media accounts of Mr Slater’s family were “sick in the head”.

Ms Duncan said police had told her they were “investigating all leads”.

“They’ve got all the plans, their locations,” she added.

“They have got this map they were showing us, shaded different colours.”

She renewed calls for British police to help with the search, saying there had been a “problem with the language barrier”.

But Spanish police have rejected an offer by Lancashire Constabulary to assist. The force said while the case “falls outside the jurisdiction of UK policing”, it offered to support Spanish police “if they need any additional resources”.

The force added: “They have confirmed that at this time they are satisfied that they have the resources they need, but that offer remains open and they will contact us should that position change.”

Mr Slater is from the Lancashire town of Oswaldtwistle, where specialist officers are continuing to support his family, the force said.

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The apprentice bricklayer was holidaying with friends on Tenerife before he disappeared, and had been at the NRG music festival on Sunday.

He was last heard from just after 8am on Monday, when he called his friend Lucy Law to say he was setting off on an 11-hour walk to get home after missing a bus.

She said he told her he was lost, in need of water, and only had 1% charge on his phone.