“We’re hiding from them,” Sahar said. “We left the house.”It wasn’t until Sunday that a terrified Kalderon saw any sign of her missing relatives, on social media. A video appeared of an Israeli child being shoved down a path by Palestinian militants.
Already, Israel has responded to the deadly assault by Hamas with a counterattack on the remaining gunmen inside Israel and an unusually intense series of strikes on Gaza, killing more than 700 Palestinians, according to Gaza health authorities.Hamas may have hoped that taking dozens of captives would ease its chances of pursuing a broad prisoner exchange with Israel, said Eyal Hulata, who served as Israel’s national security adviser until January.
Hulata allowed that some Israeli captives might be killed in an ongoing Israeli offensive. But that would probably be Hamas’ responsibility for “placing them as human shields,” he said.“I want to bring everyone home. But we cannot do that as long as the other side thinks they can get away with this,” Hulata said.
Tracking her cellphone remotely, he saw the device was taken on Saturday to southern Gaza, suggesting she, too, had been kidnapped.Then, he said, a video circulated on social media of abducted Israelis being driven through Gaza, bundled into the back of a pickup truck by gunmen. In the video, he said, a gunman attempts to spread a kind of blindfold over a woman’s head.His daughters – Raz, 5, and Aviv, 3 – and his mother-in-law Efrat Katz, 67, were squashed alongside her, he said.
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