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Israel-Hamas war: Doron Asher Katz is one of an unknown number of Israelis who have been captured and presumed held hostage by Hamas militants. | World News
The capture of so many Israelis by Palestinian militants has taken the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into uncharted territory — not only in the sheer number of hostages but also in the dire threats Hamas is making against them.
Palestinian militants kidnapped scores of Israelis in an unprecedented attack that took the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into unknown territory. Their relatives recount how they were captured.
Yoni Asher says his wife and two daughters, ages 5 and 3, were kidnapped from an Israeli border town by gunmen on Saturday and taken to Gaza.
JERUSALEM — Yoni Asher’s nightmare began early Saturday morning during a phone call with his wife, Doron Asher Katz. Whispering down the phone line, Asher Katz, 34, said that she, her mother and their two small daughters were trapped inside her mother’s safe room in a village near the Gaza border. “She told me, ‘There are terrorists inside the house,’” Asher said in an interview. Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York Times Then came worse news: Asher Katz’s mother’s life partner,