Relatives are pressuring the Israeli government to act to free their children, grandmothers and spouses – but hope is fading.
Cradling a photo of smiling family members, Adva Adar admits she is starting to lose hope. “I don’t know if we will ever be happy like this again,” she says, her voice quivering with a fear she cannot suppress.
Israel says Hamas has kidnapped 199 of its citizens, making it one of the biggest mass hostage-taking events in history. Now it is up to Netanyahu to try to devise a solution to get as many Israelis home alive as possible – and to do it while launching a ground invasion of Gaza aimed at wiping out Hamas’s leadership.
“I think my government needs to put this top of their priorities in this operation,” says Yifat Zeiler, whose cousin and two children, aged four and nine months, were kidnapped.
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