A woman has made a desperate plea for help for her 85-year-old hostage grandmother, who was caught on camera being driven in a golf cart by heavily armed Hamas terrorists during the weekend attack on Israel.
“This is my grandmother, she was captured and taken to Gaza,” Adva Adar wrote on Facebook, adding that she is frustrated at not receiving information from the government and that more must be done to return the Israeli hostages.
“His name is Yaffa Adar and he is 85 years old!!” Adar wrote about her kidnapped grandmother.
The granddaughter’s anguished cry for help comes as Hamas’ surprise attack has already claimed the lives of more than 600 Israeli citizens, and the dead are also likely to include at least several Americans.
“My grandmother founded the kibbutz with her own hands, she believed in Zionism, in this country that has abandoned her, as a hostage,” Adar wrote. “She Apparently she is lying somewhere, suffering severe pain, without medicine, without food and without water, dying of fear, alone.
“And no one talks to us, no one can tell us anything,” Adar added.
A photo of Israeli grandmother Yaffa Adar was posted online after she was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists. AP
The horrified granddaughter said she felt more should be done to ensure that those who were captured returned home safely, and wrote that she wished the Israeli government would “not sleep at night and hand over every piece of land until these people returned home.” home.
“Understand that there are people here, old people and children, women and men, with names and families,” he wrote.
On Sunday, Israel’s security cabinet officially declared war, the first since the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
More than 600 Israeli citizens have reportedly been killed since Hamas launched its attack on Saturday. AFP via Getty Images
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday prepared the Jewish state for a “long and difficult war” as his administration retaliated against a surprise attack by Hamas terrorists.
“We are embarking on a long and difficult war. The war was imposed on us by a murderous attack by Hamas. The first phase ends in these hours destroying the majority of the enemy forces that have penetrated our territory,” Netanyahu declared, according to a translation.
“We will restore security to the citizens of Israel and we will win.”
More than 300 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the war began on Saturday. Yasser 24 / SplashNews.com
More than 300 Palestinians have also died in Gaza since the start of the war with Israel on Saturday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said on Sunday.
Nearly 2,000 Gazans were also injured “as a result of Israeli airstrikes.”
The Israel Defense Forces claimed to have killed at least 400 Palestinian terrorists in Israel and in attacks in Gaza.
On Sunday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken confirmed that the US government is investigating reports that Americans were killed and reported missing in Israel.
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