Israeli Mother Gives MSNBC Harrowing Account of Hamas Terrorists Taking Her Kids — While She Was on Phone With Them
An Israeli mother broke down as she told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell the harrowing story of Hamas terrorists taking her children hostage — while she was on the phone with them.
In a stunning interview on Monday’s edition of MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, , the mother — who asked that her name not be used — gave a wrenching account of her kids being taken as Hamas launched an unprecedented coordinated terrorist assault on Israel Saturday morning. — breaking down as she described her youngest begging them not to take him:
ANDREA MITCHELL: I cannot imagine your anguish. Have you heard anything more about your sons’ conditions or any ransom demand or anything else on their condition?
ISRAELI MOTHER: No. I heard nothing from Saturday morning when we’ve last heard, had contact with them.
ANDREA MITCHELL: Where were they with it? Were they at home?
ISRAELI MOTHER: They were home at my place. It was their weekend with my father. We’re divorced. He was at his place. We’re both members of the same settlement on the Gaza border, which is a few hundreds meters away. It’s not. It’s not far. That’s why they usually sleep at my place. This is where they feel comfortable. They’re 12 and 16 so, you know, on a on a rational, normal world. It’s a good solution. They were in the beds at 630.
ANDREA MITCHELL: I, we now have the the mother back on back on with us. We were going to ask you about what you were saying to your boys. You were trying to keep them calm.
ISRAELI MOTHER: Yeah, I was on the phone to them and then trying to, trying to calm them down, saying, you know, the military is going to get there and they’re safe and they’re in their home. This is what we always tell them. And then at approximately half-past eight, they started hearing voices of the door breaking. They were with me on the phone and I asked them to be quiet, to stay quiet. They were in the safe room, which is a bedroom of the eldest, who’s 16, as I said. And about 10 minutes later, I could hear people speaking in Arabic outside their door and they broke in. And the last thing I heard was the youngest who’s 12 saying to them, “I’m too young, don’t take me!”.
And that was it. That was the last time I heard from them.
ANDREA MITCHELL: I am so sorry. We are all thinking about you. Have you heard anything from the government?
ISRAELI MOTHER: Oh, no, unfortunately not yet. Well, the army is now getting in touch with families. I know. And I’m, you know, I’m keeping my hopes up that they’re alive and well. I know that their father and his spouse were taken also, because we’ve seen one of the, one of the videos that Hamas put on. So we know that they’re alive. And I’m hoping that they’re with them. And as they took hundreds of children, babies, women and elderly people, some of them from the place I live in, I’m hopeful that they’re all together and that they have other people that they know around them to keep them safe and to give them a hug.
ANDREA MITCHELL: So that they’re all together.
ISRAELI MOTHER: And I just want them back home!
ANDREA MITCHELL: I’m sure you want them to be with people they know so that they’re not alone there.
Watch above via MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports.
