The mother of US-Israeli hostage Keith Siegel has died while he is in captivity, the family says.
“My father’s mother died and my father can’t say goodbye to her because he is in Hamas captivity for more than a year,” Siegal’s daughter Elan writes on Facebook.
“My father can’t stand with us tomorrow in the cemetery, he can’t say goodbye to the woman who loved him and raised him his whole life,” she writes. “A violent and murderous terror organization dictates our lives — from Gaza to the great United States and the whole world is silent.”
Siegel, 65, was taken captive with his wife, Aviva from their home on Kibbutz Kfar Aza on October 7, when Hamas terrorists attacked their community, killing and abducting Israelis and burning kibbutz homes.
The couple was driven into Gaza in their own car, along with a neighbor and her two children.
Aviva Siegel was released on November 26 as part of a temporary ceasefire deal brokered by Qatar and the United States between Hamas and Israel. Keith remains a captive.
Elan Siegel, the daughter of Keith Siegel, speaks to crowd of protesters at hostage families demonstration in Jerusalem’s Paris Square on May 11, 2024. (Charlie Summer/Times of Israel)
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