A chilling new image has emerged of an Israeli grandmother held by a Hamas terrorist in her bullet-riddled home, where she cooked for her captors and chatted with them until she was rescued by her police officer son.
Rachel Edri is seen with the terrorist at a table inside his shot-up home in Ofakim, about 40 kilometers from Gaza, during apparent negotiations with Israeli police.
The heartbreaking image was published on the “South First Responders” Telegram channel.
“While this hostage standoff ended with the death of the terrorists and the release of the hostages, many others did not,” the group wrote on the site, where it said the terrorist was in the middle of negotiations with police.
“We can also see the bullet holes made in the wall from the initial terrorist entry,” he added.
On Wednesday, Edri was one of several Israelis invited to meet with President Biden during his intense visit to Israel.
He thanked her for defending the Jewish state and she gave him a big hug.
A new image shows Israeli grandmother Rachel Edri, who cooked for her Hamas captors, sitting with a terrorist during negotiations with police.x / @aradboaz Rachel Edri (center), from Ofakim in southern Israel, poses for a portrait with Doron Almog (left). ), president of the Jewish Agency, during a meeting with US President Biden, in Tel Aviv, Israel.AP
Edri and her husband, David, were freed by her son Evi, who is a police officer, after their 20-hour ordeal, during which she fed her captors, baked them cookies and even asked them for Arabic lessons.
“I knew if they’re hungry, they’re angry,” he told ABC News.
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“I told them I had to take insulin, trying to distract them from the fact that I have children who are police officers… I offered them drinks: Coca-Cola Zero, water,” he told Haaretz.
For plying terrorists with food, Edri has been described as the quintessential Jewish mother, a play on the stereotype of women who overfeed guests.
Edri was one of several Israelis who met with President Biden.AFP via Getty Images Edri distracted the terrorists by asking them to teach her Arabic and baking them cookies.
Israelis have also compared her to the biblical character of Yael, who kills an evil general by offering him food before killing him in his sleep.
Edri’s brother, Shimon Koram, said he wasn’t surprised when he heard how she handled the horror.
Before the war, Edri was known for her hospitality and generosity while working at a nearby military base cooking meals for soldiers, Koram said.
Edri’s children are police officers who finally came to her rescue. ABC News Edri is described as the quintessential Jewish mother.ABC News
The two grew up in a working-class family with 12 siblings, a childhood that taught them to be tough, he said.
“We learned to survive and acquired the wisdom of life as stray cats. You can see it in how he acted,” Koram said.
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