Israeli Father Tells of Moment His Wife and Children Became Hostages
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,