An Israeli father who has been held captive by Hamas for more than two months may not know that his wife and two daughters were murdered by Hamas, a grieving relative told The Post.
Eli Sharabi, 51, was kidnapped from Kibbutz Be’eri along with his brother, Yossi Sharabi, 53, during the Hamas terrorist attack on Oct. 7, said the brothers’ niece, Shira Matalon.
Eli’s wife, Lianne, and his daughters – Noiya, 16, and Yahel, 13 – were “brutally murdered” in the attack, Shira explained.
“I don’t think Eli knows that he lost his family, now we are the closest family he has,” lamented 17-year-old Shira.
“We are very concerned about how this will be taken. I can only hope for the best, I can only hope that he is strong and can go through all that and still be able to live his life. “First, we need him back,” he said of his uncle’s possible response to his unimaginable loss.
“I believe in Eli… I believe he can deal with all of this and we owe it to him to bring him home, so he can be with the rest of his family, the ones that are left,” she said. aggregate.
Eli may not know his family was murdered, his niece Shira said. Noiya, 16, and Yahel, 13, were killed by Hamas on October 7.
On the morning of the Hamas attack, Shira herself was with her parents and brother at their home in a city in southern Israel, far from the kibbutz.
As the family hid in their own safe room, they were inundated with horrifying updates from Eli, Yossi and their families as terrorists stormed the kibbutz, Shira recalled.
She is still haunted by one of Lianne’s last messages, which read “‘we have never been so afraid in our lives.'”
“I can’t even think of all the things they must have gone through,” Shira said through tears.
“I know that Yossi… held the door to the safe room so the terrorists wouldn’t get in, but he didn’t manage to do it… they finally got into the safe room,” he explained.
“[Hamas] “They shot their dog immediately,” he added.
While Eli lost his wife and daughters, his brother Yossi’s family was able to escape, Shira said.
Eli’s brother, Yossi, was also kidnapped on October 7. Provided to NY Post
“[His wife and daughters] They had to hide for about seven hours so that the terrorists did not kill them. They were heroes and they managed to survive this and he doesn’t know it,” he lamented.
Speaking to the Times of Israel in mid-November, Yossi’s wife, Nira, said that “life stopped” for her and her daughters while her husband remains hostage.
“I’m not sure they can even breathe fresh air or be exposed to sunlight again, they must be so alone and so scared,” Shira told the Post of relatives’ concerns about what Eli and Yossi are enduring in Gaza. .
Shira spoke to The Post during a trip to New York, where she and some other relatives – including one of Yossi’s daughters – spoke to the Red Cross to ask for more help to get her uncles out of the clutches of Hamas in Gaza.
“I came to New York [this week] speak on behalf of Noiya and Yahel, to bring their father home,” he said of his late cousins.
Yossi’s wife and three daughters survived the attack. Provided to NY Post
But even when Eli and Yossi return, they have a very different world to return to, Shira continued.
While Eli lost his family, Yossi’s home on the kibbutz was razed to the ground on October 7.
“Yossi’s house has been burned, he has nowhere to go when he returns and his family has nowhere to live right now,” Shira told The Post.
“All the corpses in the street… and the corpses are their friends, they grew up with them. Lying there dead or burned, and you can see the abuse they go through. Even when I tell it like that, I can’t believe it,” he said of the deadly attack.
Eli (right) has been detained for more than two months. Provided to NY Post
Although Shira’s family home was not directly attacked, they still suffered extreme trauma from seeing their loved ones suffer so intensely.
“My parents collapsed. I needed to call an ambulance for my dad. They lost control, they started having panic attacks,” he recalled.
Shira’s twin brother has since been drafted into the military, he added.
“We were all very scared, because we realized that… the worst had happened,” Shira said.
Yossi was seen being kidnapped by Hamas attackers along with Ofir Engel, 18, who was visiting Kibbutz Be’eri to see his girlfriend, the Times of Israel reported.
Engel was freed on November 29 as part of the temporary ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, which later collapsed due to disagreements over the release of adult male and female hostages.
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