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Published October 14, 2023, 7:36 p.m. ET
An Israeli-American family of six killed by Hamas militants on October 7 texted their relatives telling them they had reached safety – only to send them heartbreaking messages in the final minutes as they were murdered in their home became.
“They are here. They are burning us. We are suffocating,” Yonatan (Johnny) Kedem Siman Tov texted his sister Ranae Butler, who lives in Israel, The Independent reported.
Tov, his wife Tamar Kedem-Siman Tov, 35, and their three children – six-year-old twin girls Shahar and Arbel and four-year-old son Omer – and his mother Carol Siman Tov, 70, were all present at the family home in Nir Oz, a Kibbutz on the outskirts of Gaza, killed.
The family fled to “safe spaces” after Hamas militants fired rocket fire. Once inside, they texted family and friends saying they were safe.
“Hi guys, we arrived at the shelter at our house, we are all fine,” Tamar texted a loved one.
But an hour later the news stopped.
Hamas fighters had broken into her home and shot her dead in her safe room.
An Israeli-American family had written to relatives saying they thought they needed to provide security – only to send them shocking news in the final minutes as they were murdered in their home.Tamar Kedem/Facebook Yonatan (Johnny) Kedem Siman Tov, his wife Tamar Kedem -Siman Tov, 35, and their three children were all killed in the attacks. Facebook/Tamar Kedem Carol Siman Tov, 70, the mother of Yonatan (Johnny) Kedem Siman Tov, was also killed at the family home in Nir Oz. kelly.ann.9022/Facebook
“Our hearts are broken,” a family friend, Yishai Lacob, wrote on Facebook, according to The Sun.
“An entire family was killed by evil murderers who shot the children and parents just because they were Jews. And that’s just one of many stories. It’s unbearable.”
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