One of those taken hostage is a grandmother who learned Arabic in hopes of building bridges with her neighbors.
Others include 11 members of an extended family, one an elderly man in a wheelchair who requires hospital care. Still another is a nurse who delivered thousands of babies over the years to parents both Israeli and Palestinian.raids on Israeli towns and villages
Ada Sagi, the daughter of Holocaust survivors from Poland, was born in Israel in 1948. As a member of a kibbutz built on the ideals of equality and humanity, she learned Arabic and taught the language to others in southern Israel as a way to improve communication and build a better relationship with Palestinians living nearby, her son said.
Nir Oz is also home to Sagui Dekel-Chen, 35, a married father of two daughters who is awaiting the birth of his third child. Neighbors reported that he helped fight off the militants who stormed the kibbutz, but he hasn't been heard from since, according to his father, Jonathan. Hersh was attending a music festival where at least 260 young people were killed. When militants threw grenades into the shelter where a group of festival goers had taken refuge, Hersh and a friend picked them up and threw them back outside, witnesses reported, but lost an arm when one detonated.
Adrienne Neta called her family as the militants burst in at her home in Kibbitz Be'eri, where at least 100 people were later found dead. Then the line went dead.Others presumed taken hostage include an family with both Italian and U.S. citizenship who were living in the same southern Israeli community of Be'eri.
The family believes all 11 were taken hostage because their bodies weren't recovered and some of their cell phones have been traced to Gaza. The family fears especially for the father, who uses a wheelchair, takes several medications daily and needs regular hospital care for a severe autoimmune condition.
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