An Israeli woman posts a heartfelt plea on social media with a photograph of her 85-year-old grandmother in the hands of Hamas terrorists in Gaza.
An unknown number of Israelis were captured in Israel and taken hostage by the terror group during their assault yesterday on Israeli border communities. The number is believed to be several dozen.
“This is my grandmother, she was captured and taken to Gaza,” writes Adva Adar on social media. “Her name is Yaffa Adar and she is 85!!”
“My grandmother established the kibbutz with her own hands, believed in Zionism, in this country that has abandoned her, a hostage,” she writes. “She is apparently thrown somewhere, suffering from severe pain, without medication, without food and without water, dying of fear, alone.”
“And no one is talking to us, no one can tell us anything.”
https://twitter.com/erlichya/status/1710950175861039172
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