Middle East
Israelis Taken Hostage Were Ripped From Everyday Activities
The number missing is unclear, more than two days after the initial violent incursion from Gaza into Israel.
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Yoni Asher last spoke to his wife on Saturday morning, when she called from her mother’s home in southern Israel near the Gaza border. “She told me terrorists had infiltrated the home,” he said. “The phone got disconnected.”
He last saw her later in the day — in a video circulating online. She and their daughters, 3 and 5 years old, were huddled with others on a flatbed in the back of a vehicle. Men with guns ushered them off.