Palestinians from the Gaza Strip enter Kibbutz Kfar Aza on Oct. 7, 2023 amid a massive assault by the Hamas terror group. (AP Photo/Hassan Eslaiah)A Kfar Aza-based journalist whose wife was murdered is missing and feared taken hostage along with his 3-year-old daughter, the man’s sister says.
“We’re waiting for any fragment of information about them,” the sister, Dafna, says in an interview in Ynet, where her missing brother, Roee Idan, works as a photographer.
Neighbors of Roee Idan and his late wife, Smadar, told the family that the child, Avigail, was seen after the incident with blood on her clothes. The blood came from a gunshot wound her father sustained, Dafna says.
Roee Idan documented Saturday terrorists crossing into his kibbutz on paragliders, his sister says, as Hamas gunmen stormed Israeli communities.
He rushed back to his home, on the western edge of Kfar Aza, only to find that terrorists had killed his wife, Smadar, in the couple’s living room, Ynet reports. Their two eldest children, 9-year-old Michal and 6-year-old Amalia, hid in a closet until the terrorists left, the report says. They are being cared for by relatives.
Idan was carrying his younger daughter Avigail when he was shot outside of their home. The small girl found shelter at the home of neighbors, but they were abducted, and she is thought to have been taken along with them, Dafna says, based on testimonies of other neighbors.
The whereabouts of Roee Idan remain unknown following multiple searches for him by locals and authorities across Kfar Aza’s territory and nearby roads.
“We are experiencing a nightmare. And we’re praying,” his sister, Dafna, tells Ynet.
The UN is showing that they stand on the side with HAMAS and IRAN by objecting to the isolation of Gaza and preventing food, water, and electricity from getting to the people.
This is War. The UN is partly to blame for this war. To allow Iran to head up the UN Human Rights Council is a good example. The UN has fomented genocide on the part of the Palestinians since 1948 through UNRWA.
How dare they tell Israel how to protect Israelis who have been butchered by these monsters?
This War Hamas and Iran started has been the most terrible killing and abduction of innocent Israeli civilians since the Holocaust.
Israel cannot stop until all those guilty of genocide, and more than a majority of the Palestinians are in favor of it all, that means demilitarizing the Gaza and West Bank populations. I think the people will have to live under Israeli rule until such time as they can be repatriated to Jordan, but they will all have to have all arms taken, all weapons manufacturing depots destroyed, all traffic into and out of these areas will have to be carefully supervised by Israel.
Israel will have to prevent International NGO money going to these people who use it for genocide. It is certain they don’t use it to build safe homes or hospitals. They use existing structures of all kinds to disguise their weapons manufacturing. They use human beings as human shields.
This can never be allowed to happen again.