Two London-based Israeli citizens say they have not received any information from British or Israeli governments about the condition or whereabouts of their parents who are being held hostage by Hamas.
The mother of 53-year-old Noam Sagi and the parents of 52-year-old Sharone Lifschitz were kidnapped from the Nir Or kibbutz on Saturday, they said.
“I should have been on my way to Heathrow to pick up my mom who’s going to celebrate the 75th birthday today with her family here in London,” Sagi said.
He said he last communicated with his mother at about 9:20 a.m. UK time on Saturday, when she went into the safe room inside her house where she lived alone after his father died just a year ago.
“Can someone remind me what my mom’s crime was? For being Jewish and living in her own home?” Sagi asked.
Lifschitz said her parents, both peace activists aged 85 and 83, are on vital medication.
Her mother was taken from her bed, disconnected from her oxygen machine and loaded onto a vehicle, she said.
Sagi and Lifschitz grew up together in the Nir Oz kibbutz, one of Israel’s several kibbutzim or small farming enclaves, that bore the brunt of Hamas’ ground assault. About 125,000 people live across approximately 250 kibbutzim in Israel, according to the Jewish Agency for Israel. Sagi’s mother was Lifschitz’s Arabic teacher.
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