Nearly a dozen members of the same family, including three girls, remain missing more than three days after Hamas terrorists stormed their Israeli kibbutz, a close friend told The Post on Tuesday.
Israeli lawyer Shaked Haran’s parents, sister, brother-in-law, young nieces, uncles and aunts have not been heard from since Saturday’s dawn sneak attack, the family friend said.
Haran’s friend, Rachel Gur, a Manhattan native, said a chilling call, possibly from one of her kidnappers, came Sunday as family members were frantically calling missing relatives.
“Someone picked up one of the phones in Hebrew with an Arabic accent and said something like ‘Kidnapped’ and ‘Gaza’ and hung up,” Gur said. “That’s the last sign of life we’ve seen.
“Since then we have had no signs of life.”
Gur, a lawyer and ministerial assistant in Israel who studied law at New York University, said Haran has been part of her staff since she graduated from law school and that she is like family to herself.
Haran’s family lived in Kibbutz Be’eri near the Gaza Strip, one of the first sites overrun by Hamas terrorists during Saturday’s dawn attack, and where at least 100 bodies were found this week.
Nearly a dozen members of the same family, including three girls between the ages of 3 and 12, remain missing from their kibbutz following the sneak attack on Israel by radical Islamic militants. Radical Hamas terrorists from the Haran Family attacked this kibbutz near the border with the Gaza Strip, burning houses to force residents to abandon their shelters. Nearly a dozen members of lawyer Shaked Haran’s family, including her nieces, remain missing. fake images
Gur said Haran, who is pregnant and has two young children, is safe with her husband but desperate for her missing relatives. The last communication from her father came just after the attack, when Haran’s brother received a brief message from her parents.
“His parents sent him a WhatsApp telling him we are in the safe room,” Gur said. “’There are armed terrorists, masked terrorists, just milling around. We don’t think we’ll make it out alive. And that was it. He simply lost communication. “That was on Saturday around 7:30 am.”
Among the missing are Haran’s nieces: Yahel Neri Shoham, 3 years old; Haveh Shoham, 8; and Noam Avigdori, 12, who are German citizens, while other family members are Italian citizens, Gur said.
The horror of the sneak attack, which has left more than 1,100 Israelis dead, also resonates in Gur.
The burned down house of Shaked Haran’s family, all missing. Haran Family
“I grew up hearing stories: My husband’s father fought in the Yom Kippur War,” she said. “And we grew up with stories of people going to synagogue and telling everyone, ‘You have to go home or you’re going to have to join the army.’ I never thought he would happen to our generation.”
Now, Gur said the Hamas attack has already surpassed the devastation of that 1973 conflict.
“We must remember that in the Yom Kippur War, about 2,900 people died in total during its weeks of fighting,” he said. “Most of them were soldiers. It was a fierce fight, but most of them were soldiers. There was no massive civil massacre.
“This was a day when the most Jews were murdered since the Holocaust,” he added of Saturday. “We haven’t seen a day like this since the Holocaust.”
Israeli soldiers patrol an Israeli kibbutz near the border with the Gaza Strip that was overrun by radical Islamic militants on Saturday. fake images
Gur said she and Haran’s friends and family are trying to carry the weight of her worry, fearing for her health because she is eight months pregnant. But the pain extends beyond a single family.
“There is a tremendous amount of anger,” he said. “It’s just that we have to focus.
“There is anger against Hamas, anger against the Israeli government. “People are feeling it,” Gur added. “But we have to focus on who we can save. We can get angry later.”
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