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“This is my family. I want you to hear Kfir’s laugh and see Ariel’s beautiful smile,” Yifat Zailer (37) wrote about the video she posted on Instagram. It shows her family, who were kidnapped by Hamas last Saturday.
At the beginning of the video, the two children Kfir and Ariel (4) smile into the camera. They are Zailer’s two cousins. Old photos show the two boys with their parents Shiri (30) and Yarden Silberman-Bibas (37) and their grandparents Yosi and Margit Silberman. No trace of them can currently be found, the Daily Mail reports.
Suddenly communication stopped
“Please share this video so that it reaches all the mothers and fathers in the world who still believe that this catastrophe that has happened to us is justified,” Zailer wrote later in the video. This ends with a shot of her aunt Shiri Silberman-Bibas clinging to her two sons before the terrorists drag the family from their home in Kibbutz Nir Oz in southern Israel.
According to reports, while they were seeking shelter, the children’s father, Yarden Silberman-Bibas, texted his relatives on Saturday: “I love you all.” 30 minutes later he wrote: “They’re coming in” – then communication stopped.
“My fear is that they separated them. That they killed them, that they were injured, that we won’t see them again,” a relative of the kidnapped mother told Sky News. “That we won’t even get any information from them and will remain in this void forever.”
Zailer told the New York Times that she would not rest until her family returned. “I just hope they’re alive and together. “I want them home with me so I can hug them again,” she says. “We have the feeling that those responsible do not know what to do. Because it’s a situation we’ve never experienced before. It’s a disaster.”
The Israeli woman’s video on Instagram ends with the words: “Don’t let these be our last memories. Don’t take away my sunshine.” (gs)
Source: Blick
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