Horrifying video shows the moment an Israeli mother and her two young sons are dragged from their home near the Gaza border by Hamas terrorists before disappearing.
Shiri Silberman-Bibas, 30, was hiding in a safe room with her husband Yarden and nine-month-old Kfir and three-year-old Ariel at Kibbutz Nahal Oz when Israel was overrun by militants on Saturday.
Armed with just a small pistol, Yarden hoped to protect his family as the villages were raided – in an attack that saw hundreds of Israelis killed and over 100 taken hostage.
He sent a “I love you all” message to his family as they went into hiding, according to reports. Then, 30 minutes later, he said ominously, “They’re coming in.”
A video later emerged showing the distraught mother clutching her two children as they were kidnapped, with horrified onlookers shouting: “She’s got a baby”.
The family has not been heard from since and Shiri’s parents, Yosi and Margit Silberman, who are in their late 60s, are also missing and suspected to have been kidnapped.
Shiri Silberman-Bibas, 30, is believed to have been kidnapped along with her nine-month-old Kfiri and three-year-old Ariel.
Supporters of Israel at a vigil outside Downing Street in London held pictures of a mother and her sons making out, with a placard pleading: “Let the children go.”
The mother appears to plead with the militants as she clings desperately to her two young sons
Social media footage of Shiri crying as she and her children are taken away by militants has caused anxiety.
Social media footage of Shiri crying as she and her children are taken away by militants has sparked anxiety among the Jewish community around the world.
The mother’s expression of terror and images of her sons were used by demonstrators to show the horror inflicted by Hamas.
Supporters of Israel at a vigil outside Downing Street in London held pictures of a mother and her sons making out, with a placard pleading: “Let the children go.”
Shiri’s granddaughter, Yifat Zailer, who spoke to the New York Times, said she will not rest until her relatives return home.
“I just hope they’re alive and together. And I want them home, with me, so I can hug them tight again,” she said.
“We think that those in charge do not know what to do, because this is a situation we have never been in before. This is the feeling in Israel,” she added. “It’s a disaster.”
About 150 Israelis, many of them civilians, are believed to have been abducted by the militants in the bloodiest incursion into Israeli territory in its 50-year history.
Pro-Israel demonstrators protest during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, near Downing Street in London
Footage showed terrified children, mothers and elderly people being loaded into vehicles by heavily armed men before being driven to Gaza.
Gunmen were reported to be going door-to-door to round up entire families as they took shelter from a barrage of rockets fired into the settlements from Gaza.
It has even been suggested that an elderly Holocaust survivor was among those dragged across the border into Hamas territories.
Two Britons are also believed to be among those arrested after the terror group launched its bloody surprise attack.
Now the group has announced that it will execute the hostages one by one in retaliation for any new Israeli bombing of civilian homes without prior warning.
Abu Obaida, spokesman for Hamas’s armed wing, the IQB, said they acted in accordance with Islamic guidelines by keeping the Israeli captives safe.
He blamed the targeted move for Israel’s increased bombing and killing of civilians inside their homes in airstrikes without warning them.
“We have decided to put an end to this and as of now, we declare that any targeting of our people in their homes without prior warning will be regretfully met with the execution of one of the civilian hostages we are holding,” he said.
Gaza City was devastated by airstrikes today in response to the surprise attack launched by Hamas on Saturday.
Israel today ordered a ‘complete siege’ of the city, cutting off electricity, fuel and food to the Gaza Strip’s 2.3 million residents.
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