Chaos in Israel. More than 100 people are believed to have been taken hostage by Hamas militants as tanks advanced towards Gaza. After the attack during a desert festival near Kibbutz Reim, social media was flooded with photos and videos of kidnappings: men, women and children being forcibly taken away. As the hours pass, the calls from families who are worried about what may happen to their loved ones are increasing. Jewish officials talk about 130 hostages: Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas claimed to have taken more than 100 Israelis hostage during Saturday’s attack, while Islamic Jihad said it kidnapped about 30 people. The hostages include children, elderly people and foreigners. They were captured on the streets, in kibbutzim, or torn from their homes. The videos circulating on the internet are frightening; The brutality of the militia attacks everyone.
Kidnapping and violence: fear on social media
The images of Noa Argamani, who was torn from her boyfriend’s arms and taken away on a motorcycle while she was asking for help, are heartbreaking. Next to him is the child Avinatan, who is “escorted” by several men with tied hands, with a terrified and disbelieving face. In the images published on social media, which we chose not to publish, the 25-year-old young man shouts, “No, don’t kill me.”
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The story of Shani Louk, a young German tattoo artist known in videos shot at the festival, is also horrific. The call of her mother, Ricarda Louk, was shared on social media: “My daughter, Shani Nicole, a German citizen, was kidnapped by Hamas while she was attending a party in southern Israel with a group of tourists. She sent me a video in which I could recognize my daughter passing through the streets of Gaza, unconscious in a car with a group of Palestinians.” ” said the mother. In the video message, the mother shows a photo of her when she was in her twenties. Her two-year-old daughter. The woman calls for help and wants to get news about her daughter, to whom she shows her passport. The young girl’s uncle, Winfried Gehr, told the Bild newspaper that Nicole attended the festival with her boyfriend. At the festival: A The final footage shows her carefree dancing with her friend, but it’s unclear what happened to her, just as it’s not possible to say for certain that she’s the tattooed girl depicted in a second film, lying helpless. A security guard at the party, a 26-year-old British national named Jake Marlowe is also lost.
Also dramatic is the case of Yoni Asher, who reported the abduction of her husband Doron Katz-Asher and her two daughters, Aviv and Raz, ages 3 and 5, who were at her mother-in-law’s home on Kibbutz Nir Oz. When Hamas attacked the intervention. Using the geolocation system of the woman’s cell phone, the man tracked the device to Khan Younis, a city in southern Gaza. There are not only women and children, but also the elderly. An Israeli woman reported the kidnapping of her 85-year-old grandmother Yaffa Adar: “This is my grandmother and she was captured and taken to Gaza – we read in the appeal her granddaughter Adva Adar shared on social media – My grandmother is the one who founded the Kibbutz, believed in the Zionists, abandoned this country “The lover has been kidnapped. He has probably been thrown away somewhere, there is no medicine, no food or water, he is sick and in severe pain. No one talks to us, no one tells us anything.”
Families’ desperation: “We want answers”
These are just some of the dramatic stories coming out of Israel, where families of kidnapped people want information about their loved ones, but in most cases they cannot get answers. Representatives of Israeli families whose relatives have been missing since the beginning of the war held a press conference yesterday morning to “demand answers”. “We demand answers,” said a man whose two daughters were kidnapped by Hamas militants, according to Haaretz. Not all the answers will make us happy. We want to return the children, boys and girls to their families within 48 hours. It’s been a long time since all this started and some families don’t know anything. “We cannot face this situation alone, the road is still long and the next few days will be very difficult.”
The Berlin Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that it is estimated that there were German citizens among the people kidnapped by Hamas in Israel, and that all of the kidnapped people had dual Israeli-German citizenship. Among the hostages are citizens of other nationalities, including 11 Thais, 2 Mexicans and an unknown number of Americans and Germans. Meanwhile, at the missing persons center near Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport, dozens of people are registering and taking DNA samples. Citizens from different origins but with the same hope can hug their loved ones again.
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Karen Clayton is a seasoned journalist and author at The Nation Update, with a focus on world news and current events. She has a background in international relations, which gives her a deep understanding of the political, economic and social factors that shape the global landscape. She writes about a wide range of topics, including conflicts, political upheavals, and economic trends, as well as humanitarian crisis and human rights issues.
