Grandmother taken hostage by Hamas survives Holocaust

Palestinians kidnapped an Israeli citizen on Saturday Photo: Hatem Ali/AP

A Holocaust survivor in a wheelchair was among the hostages dragged across the river The border with the Gaza Strip has been seized by Hamas terrorists, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.

Mr Blinken detailed the horror that unfolded in Israel on Saturday in what he said was the worst attack on the country since the war Doomsday 1973.

“Indiscriminate firing of rockets at civilians. Thousands of rockets. Men, women and children were dragged across the border into the Gaza Strip, including a Holocaust survivor in a wheelchair. People, civilians, are being shot in the streets,” he said.

“This should cause outrage throughout the world.”

According to some estimates, there are about 100 hostages, including soldiers. civilians were dragged across the border to be held hostage by Hamas.

“No country should live in fear of terrorists who will enter people's homes, shoot them in the street, drag them across the border and hold them hostage.” , Mr. Blinken said on Sunday.

“This is intolerable for any democracy.”

The Holocaust survivor kidnapped by Hamas is not the first to fall victim to the terrorist group.

Last February, 91-year-old Naomi Perlman died at the hands of the terrorist group. she received shrapnel wounds to her leg after a Hamas rocket hit her home in Ashkelon.

Her caretaker Soumya Sutash was killed in the same attack.

Meanwhile, Mr. Mr Blinken: The US was trying to confirm whether American citizens were among those killed and captured by Hamas.

“We are working overtime to verify this. At the same time, reports of missing Americans are coming in, and we are again working to verify these reports,” he said.