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Asher, 37, hoped that his spouse and children were safe, at least. But then the phone lines went dead. It was the last time Asher heard from his wife. Tracking her phone remotely, he saw that the device was taken Saturday to Khan Younis, a city in southern Gaza, suggesting that she, too, had been kidnapped.
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.
Written by Patrick Kingsley Yoni Asher’s nightmare began early on 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 […]
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Israeli family's nightmare as hostages in Gaza after a border incident. Trapped by Palestinian militants, they face an uncertain fate in this terrifying ordeal