The father of a missing Israeli woman heard gunshots while talking to his terrified daughter on the phone before the line went dead, the woman’s mother told The Post.
“She said, ‘They’re shooting.’ They’re shooting at us! They are getting closer. Take care of the dog,’ and then they cut off our phone,” Orin Gatz said in a telephone interview from Israel.
Their daughter, Eden Zecharya, 28, has not been seen since leaving the Tribe of Nova music festival in the Negev desert with her boyfriend and friend.
“I can’t believe I’m praying that she will be kidnapped by the worst terrorist organization in the world and not murdered,” the distraught 48-year-old mother said in Hebrew, speaking through a translator.
Zecharya, a media studies student, left the festival shortly before Hamas fighters stormed Saturday’s party, killing at least 260 attendees and kidnapping dozens.
“He left the party because he wanted to come home,” Gatz said.
The father of missing Israeli woman Eden Zecharya, 28, heard gunshots while speaking to her on the phone before the connection was lost during the Hamas attack on a music festival in Israel. Courtesy of the family Zecharya and her boyfriend Ofek Kimhi are missing since the attack. Courtesy of the family Debris abandoned on the ground at the Supernova music festival where Hamas killed 260 people. ATEF SAFADI / EPA-EFE / Shutterstock
Several minutes later, his daughter called from a car and told him she was heading home, as sirens blared in the area.
“She said, ‘Yes, everything is fine. I’m on my way home and I’m coming home, I’m fine. Wait a second, Dad’s on the other line,’” Gatz recalled.
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2005: Israel unilaterally withdraws from the Gaza Strip more than three decades after seizing the territory from Egypt in the Six-Day War.
2006: The terrorist group Hamas wins the Palestinian legislative elections.
2007: Hamas takes control of Gaza in a civil war.
2008: Israel launches a military offensive against Gaza after Palestinian terrorists fire rockets at the city of Sderot.
2023: Hamas launches largest attack on Israel in 50 years.
More than 1,300 Israelis have been killed, more than 3,000 wounded and at least 100 taken hostage, with the death toll expected to rise after Hamas terrorists fired thousands of rockets and sent dozens of militants into Israeli cities. .
Hamas terrorists were seen taking women hostage and parading them down the street in gruesome videos.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced “We are at war” and promised that Hamas would pay “a price it has never known.”
Gaza health officials report that at least 1,400 Palestinians have been killed and more than 6,000 injured.
But she didn’t get very far.
The Hamas terrorists opened fire on the car, wounding her boyfriend, Ofek Kimhi, and his friend.
“She heard the boyfriend screaming in the background,” the distraught mother said, referring to Zecharya’s father.
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The friend survived the bloodbath, but Zecharya and Kimhi have not been heard from or seen since the surprise attack.
Orin Gatz is praying that her daughter was only kidnapped by Hamas terrorists. Courtesy of the family People leave flowers for the victims of the attack on the festival.REUTERS/Violeta Santos Moura
Zecharya said her daughter “never felt hate in her” and “everything was peace and love.”
She is hopeful that Zecharya, who loved animals and traveled to music festivals, will soon be reunited with the family.
“They killed us,” Gatz said. “But they can’t kill our hope.”
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