A mother has recounted the last conversation she had with her 12-year-old daughter, before she was believed to have been abducted by Hamas on Saturday.
Galit Dan, 53, was five miles away hiding in a panic room when her daughter Noya sent a voicemail: ‘Mum, I’m scared. There are people at home – help me.’
Noya hid in the dark at her grandmother Carmela’s house, texting each other silently as explosions erupted around Nir Oz’s kibbutz on Saturday morning.
They disappeared after Noya sent a panicked message and are believed to have been taken back to the Gaza Strip by Hamas militants. 150-plus hostages.
Carmela, right, was with her granddaughter, left, when Hamas struck Israel on Saturday
Galit Dan (right) said her daughter (left) was abducted by Hamas from Kisufi Kibbutz
Inon Ilan, whose partner’s 12-year-old child, Noya, was allegedly captured by Hamas
Noya’s mother managed to wait safely with her husband – Noya’s stepfather – and her daughter Tomal at their home in the Kibbutz Kissufin settlement.
After 22 hours, the family was evacuated to a tourist hotel in the Dead Sea.
said Mrs. Dan sun on Monday: ‘The pain is indescribable. My little girl went to sleep with her grandma and was texting us because these animals were coming for them.
“Our best hope now is that they’ve been abducted and will somehow survive.”
“I’m living every parent’s nightmare – every parent in the world will feel our pain.”
Mrs Dan told The Sun her daughter had autism and was extremely sensitive.
She described her daughter as a “very sweet, very funny, very smart little girl.”
She said her grandmother Carmela was ‘vulnerable herself’, aged 80.
‘What do they hope to achieve by doing this to helpless innocent people?’ she asked from Hamas.
Hamas is the de facto governing authority in Gaza, a Palestinian enclave.
On Saturday morning, the group’s militant wing, the Al Qassam Brigades, launched a surprise incursion into Israel.
Shocking footage showed band members parading through a trance festival and opening fire on attendees.
More than 260 people are expected to have died in the attack – and many more are missing, feared to have been taken hostage.
Around 150 people are reported to have now been taken hostage by the group, with footage showing some returning to Gaza in golf carts and trucks.
Flames and smoke rise after an Israeli airstrike in Khan Yunis, Gaza on October 11, 2023
Smoke rises after Israeli strikes on Gaza City’s seaport, Gaza, October 10, 2023
At least 900 Palestinians have been killed by ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, according to the Gaza health ministry on Tuesday. In the photo: the consequences of an Israeli attack on a ship in the port of Gaza
Palestinians walk through the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City on Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Smoke rises and a fireball over a building in Gaza City on October 9, 2023
Hamas has continued to launch attacks across Israel. With little incentive to de-escalate, viewers worry the clashes could continue.
Thomas Helm, Jerusalem Correspondent in national teamtold MailOnline from Jerusalem on Saturday: “It really depends on what Hamas wants out of it.
“I have heard comments from Hamas officials saying ‘we now have enough hostages to release every Palestinian prisoner in the prisoner exchange.’
He added: “The surest way to get the hostages back is to exchange prisoners, but do you want to exchange prisoners en masse at a time like this? Certainly not.’
In response to Hamas’s ‘Operation Al Aqsa Flood’ campaign, Israel has responded in kind with incessant bombing of the Gaza Strip.
Netanyahu vowed to reduce the city to ‘ruins’ in retaliation for the attacks.
Israeli strikes have devastated civilian areas – and Gaza’s largest refugee camp.
On Tuesday, IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari said: “The emphasis is on damage and not on accuracy.”
Israel ordered a ‘total encirclement’ of Gaza on Monday, which will restrict energy, food, fuel and medicine to Gazan civilians.
Hamas responded by saying they would execute a hostage and upload footage whenever an Israeli airstrike hit civilian homes without warning.
Israeli forces remove the dead bodies of Israeli residents from a destroyed house as fighting between Israeli troops and Hamas Islamist militants continues, October 10, 2023
A woman goes through the trunk of her car after it was hit by a rocket the day before on October 10, 2023 in Ashkelon, Israel
A burnt house after an attack by Palestinian militants on a kibbutz near the border with Gaza on October 10, 2023 in Kfar Gaza, Israel
A man walks past destroyed cars that were attacked by Palestinian militants on October 10, 2023 in Kfar Aza, Israel
Rights groups and charities have leveled complaints against Israel and Hamas for their actions – Hamas for taking hostages and brutally killing civilians, and Israel for indiscriminate shelling of civilian areas inside Gaza.
Mustafa Tamaizeh, Acting Country Director of Oxfam in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel, said on Tuesday: “Oxfam is appalled by the recent attacks. Violence never gives way to peace. The international community must use all diplomatic tools at its disposal. available to secure an immediate ceasefire.
“The decision to implement a ‘total siege’ by the Israeli government, in addition to the ongoing blockade, will further deny the civilians of Gaza essentials such as food, water and electricity.
“This constitutes collective punishment of a population that bears no responsibility for the violence and is illegal under international law. It will not contribute to peace and security, on the contrary, it will further fan the flames of this crisis.’
Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestine Director at Human Rights Watch, said: “Deliberate killings of civilians, taking hostages and collective punishments are terrible crimes that have no justification.
“Unlawful attacks and systematic oppression that have engulfed the region for decades will continue, as long as human rights and accountability are ignored.”
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