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Published October 8, 2023, 7:31 PM ET
An Israeli mother and her two young daughters were among more than 100 civilians taken hostage by Hamas terrorists as they invaded the country in a bloody sneak attack on Saturday.
Doron Asher had gone with her little girls to visit her grandmother in the village of Nir Oz near the Gaza border over the weekend when Hamas militants raided the house, Portal reported.
Terrified, she called her husband Yoni in central Israel, but the phone cut out and he hasn’t heard from her since.
“She told me the terrorists were in the house,” and that was it, Yoni said.
When she tracked Doron’s phone, her location showed she was across the border in Gaza, Yoni said.
His fears were later confirmed when he saw a video on social media that clearly showed Doron and her daughters, along with other hostages, being loaded into a cart at gunpoint and carted away by Hamas fighters.
Doron Asher (left) was on the phone with her husband Yoni (right) when she and her little girls were taken hostage. Instagram/Doron Katz Asher The couple’s two young girls were kidnapped by Hamas and thrown into a cart with other hostages. also.Instagram/Doron Katz Asher
“I certainly identified my wife, my two daughters and my mother-in-law on some kind of cart and Hamas terrorists around them,” Yoni said.
“My two little girls, they are still babies, they are not even 5 and 3 years old. … I don’t know in what way they are trapped. I don’t know what happened to them.”
Yoni desperately pleaded for his family to be safe – and even offered himself as a hostage in exchange for their return.
“I would like to ask Hamas: ‘Don’t hurt them. Doesn’t hurt small children. Doesn’t hurt women.
“‘If you want me instead, I’m willing to come.'”
Yoni was able to identify his wife, daughters and mother-in-law in a video he found on social media. Yoni made an emotional plea to Hamas not to harm his family and offered to exchange ideas with them.Instagram/Doron Katz Asher
Hundreds of Israelis have been killed since Hamas militants stormed the country on Saturday, leaving a trail of bloody destruction in their wake.
Thousands were also injured.
Numerous videos have emerged showing old and young women screaming and being carried away on motorcycles and cars and loaded into trucks and wagons.
Survivors of a music festival attacked by Hamas said the militants shot off the legs of concertgoers to prevent them from escaping.
According to the Independent, Doron is also a German citizen and her family has asked the country’s officials to help ensure the safe return of her and the girls.
She is not the only German-Israeli drawn into the conflict.
Shani Louk, a German tattoo artist, was positively identified as a woman whose body was stripped naked, thrown into the back of a pickup truck and paraded around by lewd Hamas militants. It remains unclear whether she is alive or dead.
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