Families of Israeli hostages held by Hamas cling to digital clues

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Hamas’s decision to film its rampage has deepened the anguish of Israelis, but it has also given intelligence experts clues about where hostages are being held.

Hadas Kalderon, a resident of Kibbutz Nir Oz, in an apartment in Tel Aviv on Thursday. Two of her children have been detained by Hamas. “Mom, be quiet, don’t move,” Erez, 12, texted. Hamas militants had stormed his father’s house, in their southern Israeli kibbutz of Nir Oz, where he and his 16-year-old sister, Sahar, had spent the night.

Five members of the family were taken: Erez, Sahar and their 50-year-old father, Ofer; their 80-year-old grandmother, Carmela, and 12-year-old cousin, Noya, were grabbed from another house in the community. There are 203 people being held hostage in Gaza, according to the Israeli government, including civilians with passports from at least 31 other countries.

Many of the roughly 100 men and women in the “war room” have deep military and intelligence experience, and some are being called up by Israel’s most elite units. They include 8200, the Israeli military’s cyberintelligence division, and Duvdevan, its undercover counterterrorism unit, which was the basis for the Netflix series “

Most of the videos were filmed and posted during or shortly after the initial abductions, flooding social media sites such as Telegram, Facebook, Snapchat and X, formerly known as Twitter — oftentimes all at once. Many were easy to find because they were posted with the same set of hashtags. In rare instances, Palestinian gunmen could be heard discussing where to take their captives.

Kalderon has not turned on the news since the attack. All she knows is that 80 of her 400 neighbors are dead or missing. At least 1,400 people in Israel have been killed.

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