Israeli man recalls how Hamas ‘kidnapped’ wife, two daughters: ‘…then call got cut off’
Hindustan TimesOctober 2023 Gaza–Israel conflict: Yoni Asher is back at his home in central Israel after his countless bids to get assistance from authorities to rescue his wife, mother-in-law and two children who, he suspects, were abducted by Hamas militants when they launched a surprise assault on Saturday. Asher’s wife, Doron Asher Katz, 34, was visiting her mother in the community Nir Oz near the border with their two young daughters when Hamas attacked. Doron Asher Katz, 34, was visiting her mother in the community Nir Oz near the border with their two young daughters when Hamas attacked. “I saw she had been taken into Kfar Younis which is deep inside Gaza,” Asher, a real estate, told The Independent, adding, “The GPS even showed us the route the terrorists took.” Yoni Asher, who saw videos of his wife, daughters, who are under five years old, and mother-in-law, surrounded by Hamas militants before his wife's phone was traced to Gaza, looks at his phone from his home in Ganot Hadar, Israel, Alongside his wife was his mother-in-law Efrat, believed to be part of the hostages the Palestinian militants claim to be holding.