BBC Correspondent Nomia Iqbal spoke with Rachel Goldberg, mother of one of the missing Israelis. According to eye witnesses Goldberg spoke with, her 23-year-old son, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, lost half of his arm after a grenade explosion. Goldberg says he was subsequently taken hostage by Hamas.source
Israel's military denounced the Hamas video as "psychological terror against Israeli citizens", adding that it was in constant touch with the young woman's family. Hamas had murdered and abducted babies, women, children and the elderly and was now "trying to portray itself as a humane organisation", it added.source
His cousin Hadas, who lives in Nir Oz, a kibbutz next to Gaza, had been updating her family from within an air raid shelter, where she had run after sirens went off to warn of incoming rocket fire. Early in the morning, she had written that she could hear gunmen…
Palestinian militant group Hamas has launched its biggest attack on Israel, with rocket strikes, killings and hostage taking.In turn Israel launched a retaliatory wave of air strikes on Gaza.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel was "at war". Hamas, which rules Gaza, would "pay an unprecedent price," he added. BBC…
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