“We feel joy but also nervous because we don’t know if my aunt will be one of those released.”

2023-11-22 18:27:13

“We are happy, but nervous because we don’t know if my aunt is on the list of those released.” The speaker from Barcelona is Inbar, niece of Adina Moshe, 72, who was kidnapped on October 7 after the Hamas attack on Kibbutz Nir Oz, in which her husband, Said Moshe, was murdered. This is her reaction after the agreement reached by Israel and the Hamas group to release in the coming days 50 Israeli hostages, only women and children, in exchange for 150 Palestinian prisoners.

He assures that they are still “waiting” to see how this pact develops. And he confesses that “it is a shame” that they only release fifty people, although he highlights that “they prioritize women and children.” The number of hostages amounts to 239 people.

The kidnapping of Adina Moshe is one of the best known, since she could be seen on a motorcycle held by her captors that October 7. An image that was shared on social networks, like so many others. Said and Adina were hiding in the protected room of her house when the terrorists entered it. “My uncle tried to block the door and couldn’t,” Inbar said.

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Said was shot through the safe room door as he tried to keep it closed. His wife, Adina, desperately called for help and tried to stop the bleeding until the terrorists blew out the window and shot Said several times to ensure that he would not survive. Adina, after witnessing how her husband was killed, “was kidnapped barefoot” and forcibly taken out through the window of the safe room, according to some witnesses.

While this was happening, in a nearby house, Adina and Said’s son, Amos, his wife, Corin, and their five children were also being attacked. The family locked themselves in a safe room of the home and Amos kept the door locked for seven hours so that the terrorists could not enter. They shot several times to try to open it, without success. The terrorists remained in his house for numerous hours. “Luckily they were able to save themselves,” says Inbar, who is now waiting to find out if her aunt is on the list of those released.

Relatives of the disappeared already knew this past weekend that the Israeli Government was close to negotiating a partial release with the Islamist militia. The confirmation of this process yesterday caused a feeling of “relief” in the associations of families of hostages who have repeatedly demonstrated in favor of the Executive doing everything possible to rescue their loved ones, and also against the continuous bombings on the Gaza undergrounds where they could be held “putting their lives in danger.”