2023-10-14 21:52:41
Los Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel, with its bloodiest point last Saturday, October 7, left death, cruelty and destruction in their wake. But also to many families desperate to know the fate of their loved ones who were kidnapped during the invasion.
Son 15 Argentines who were taken hostage by the terrorist group or whose whereabouts are directly unknownand the diary The nation reconstructed the profiles of 11 of them.
A family weekend that ended in horror
Clara Marman, 63 years old; her partner, Luis Has (70); his brother, Ferdinand Marman (60) and his sister, Gabriela Leimberg (59) were in the Nir Yitzhak kibbutz, located about ten minutes from the Gaza Strip, along with Mia Leimberg, a 17-year-old teenager born in Israel.
It was during the tragic Saturday. They were refugees and Clara sent a last message to her daughters Mayan and Gefen: “They are at home, they are breaking things.” Nothing more was heard from them.
León Gieco’s desperate request for his nephew
“I ask for the return of all the hostages to their places. In my particular case, I ask for the return of my nephew. Ron Schermanfor the love that unites us as a family, and for universal love,” León Gieco published on his social networks.
Ron, 19, is a soldier and was carrying out duties on the border with Gaza. Early on the Saturday of the attack, he wrote to his father, Alex Sherman: “They are very close. It’s the end.”
Alex then saw videos shared by Hamas showing how Ron was taken away.
Alone on the kibbutz at the worst time
Ofelia Feler de Roitman77, was alone that Saturday in her home in Kibbutz Nir Oz, where she has lived since 1985. Her husband Hector was hospitalized recovering from hip surgery.
As in the other cases, the woman wrote to her family describing the noises that came to her from outside her house. Her until she stopped sending and receiving messages.
“That must have been the moment when the terrorists entered and took her away. Since Saturday morning nothing has been heard from her,” said sports reporter and journalist Hernán Feler, Ofelia’s nephew.
Another missing family
A little more than 2 kilometers from the border with Gaza, also in the Nir Oz kibbutz, Karina Engelberta 50-year-old woman from Córdoba, sent a last message to her sister Paola on Saturday morning: “They’re in! They’re in.”
She was sheltered in a security bunker along with her husband Ronen Engel (54) and her daughters Mika (19) and Yuva (11). They haven’t been heard from for a week.
Tom, another son of Karina, 21 years old, was not there because he was carrying out duties as a reservist in the Israeli Army.
A kidnapping recorded on video
José Luis Silberman, 67 years old, worked in the crops of Kibbutz Nir Oz. On Saturday, he was kidnapped by terrorists along with his wife Margit, his daughter Shiri, his son-in-law Yaden and his grandchildren Ariel, three years old, and Kfir, nine months old.
The only thing that was known about them was from a video released by Hamas in which they can see how they take Niri away with the two children in her arms.
Two brothers that no one heard from again
Iair Horn45 years old, had received a visit from his younger brother, I deny Horn37. They were also in the razed Nir Oz kibbutz.
“When I called, they didn’t answer me on WhatsApp, or by SMS, or by direct phone. I called a friend and he confirmed that they are missing, that they were looking for them throughout the kibbutz, that they are not in the house… That they are not “Yesterday they searched at night, today in the morning and they can’t find them,” was the desperate testimony of Itzik Horn, father of both, to La Nación.
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Itzik Horn demands that the Government help him find his children Iair and Eitan
In addition, Itzik sent a video to Waldo Wolff to intercede with the Government to demand that it speak out requesting the release of the Argentine hostages.
A security manager who couldn’t resist
Lior Rudaeff, 61, lived almost his entire life in Israel. On Saturday he was doing his job as security officer at Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak when he was captured.
His family was confined to shelters for 48 hours and was rescued.
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