The children of an elderly Jewish woman kidnapped by Hamas called on the Israeli government and military commanders not to destroy Gaza, fearing their mother could die in military action.
Is about Ditza Heimanan 84-year-old Israeli woman who was kidnapped from her home in the kibbutz (Israeli agricultural community) Nir Oz during her stay by terrorists from the fundamentalist group Hamas and taken to the Gaza Strip The bloody attack from last Saturday.
“My mother, 84, was taken hostage. I also ask in his name: do not destroy Gaza,” said the editor of the French newspaper Le Monde in X, Benjamin BartheSon of Ditza Heiman.
An article published in Haaretz states: Neta HeimanDaughter of the old woman, defined her mother and her neighbors on the kibbutz as “people of peace… people who believed that there are people with rights on the other side of the border fence.”
Like her brother, the journalist turned to the Israeli authorities so that they don’t destroy the Gaza Strip and those associated with it the terror of the first moments after losing contact with her mother, and the anguish of the days that followed when she learned she had been kidnapped by Hamas militias.
“In this terrible place we now find ourselves, I call on the government that will stand up when the nightmare is over and say: Don’t destroy the Gaza Strip; This will help no one and will only provoke an even more violent round of violence next time,” said Neta Heiman on the pages of the newspaper, which is close to positions of Israel’s political left.
According to her story, the old woman managed to ask a neighbor for “help” before being kidnapped by her captors. The man came out with a gun to defend it, but the overwhelming number of terrorists forced him to give up the attempt.
A call to his mother’s phone that same day confirmed his fears. “I called Ima’s phone and someone with an Arabic accent answered [en inglés]“It’s Hamas, it’s Hamas,” said another of the woman’s daughters. After that nothing, no news.
“There is a video of Savta on the Hamas Facebook page,” a nephew told the journalist on Tuesday morning. According to Heiman, the pictures confirmed the neighbor’s statement. Her mother appears unharmed as she is loaded into a van.
Meanwhile, with the war already unleashed, the family reported that no official organization had contacted them until they received a call from an army representative on Tuesday evening informing them that their mother had been “kidnapped.”
“I am angry at the despicable people who kidnapped my mother massacred dozens of civilians, committed a pogrom in his kibbutz. “I am of course angry with Hamas, with Palestinian Islamic Jihad and with Iran, with everyone who sent these people to kill, loot and take hostages,” the journalist said.
But she also said she was angry “at the Israeli government,” which she accused of “doing everything possible to aggravate the situation in the Gaza border area” last year. “But more than that, I am angry at all Israeli governments since 2000 that have done absolutely nothing to try to end this terrible conflict.”
For Neta Heiman: “When it comes time to negotiate a ceasefire, [habrá que] Use this moment to also reach an agreement between the two parties. Not a ‘deal’, but a real peace agreement.”
“History has shown that it is possible,” said the activist from the NGO Women Wage Peace, recalling the peace that was subsequently achieved with neighboring Egypt the Yom Kippur War.
Recently the story of Raquel, a woman from Kibbutz Ofakim who was kidnapped He was held in his home by militants from the Islamic Resistance group (Hamas) for almost a full day.
Raquel secretly worked with the Israeli police so that they could catch the terrorists and free them. The police officers who tried to rescue the woman included her own son, who urged her to remain calm and cooperate discreetly.
The Israeli government declared a state of war on Sunday in response to a surprise attack suffered by forces of the Islamist group Hamas on its territory on Saturday.
Israel’s reaction Last week the bombings in the Gaza Strip intensified. They also imposed restrictions on the import of supplies, food and fuel into Palestine.
The conflict has so far claimed thousands of lives on both sides and many analysts warn that the consequences could be greater if other states join the war.