On Friday, The Hostages and Lacking Individuals Households Discussion board introduced that 73-year-old Israeli-American Gadi Haggai was murdered by Hamas.
Gadi and his spouse Judi Weinstein, 70, had been on the Kibbutz Nir Oz after they had been kidnapped. Nir Oz was one of many hardest hit communities through the Hamas terror assaults in opposition to Israel on October 7.
In a press release, the kibbutz mentioned Gadi, believed to have been wounded through the onslaught, was murdered whereas Judi stays hostage in Gaza.
The couple was on “their common morning stroll within the fields and vineyards” when Hamas kidnapped them.
The Forum shared, “Gadi was a person filled with humor who knew the right way to make these round him snigger. A musician at coronary heart, a gifted flutist, he performed within the IDF Orchestra and was concerned with music his entire life.”
“Judi managed to inform buddies that that they had been shot and that Gadi was critically injured — it was the final contact with them,” the Discussion board mentioned.
Taking cowl in a discipline, they might hear a recorded voice from an alert system for his or her kibbutz in southern Israel.
“What did she say?” Weinstein requested in Hebrew as she captured the scene on video.
“Pink alert,” her 72-year-old husband mentioned, referring to the warning for incoming rocket fireplace.
Weinstein shared the 40-second video clip in a bunch chat on October 7, when Hamas invaded Kibbutz Nir Oz throughout its terror onslaught, within the couple’s final contact with their household.
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Later, the pair’s kids had been knowledgeable that Weinstein had known as for medical assist however that that they had misplaced contact along with her.
“She mentioned they had been shot by terrorists on a bike and that my dad was wounded actually dangerous,” mentioned Iris Weinstein Haggai.
“Paramedics tried to ship her an ambulance. The ambulance bought hit by a rocket,” mentioned Weinstein Haggai.
Earlier than the information of Gadi’s demise, his son shared pleas for the secure return of his mother and father.
Judy Haggai is 70. Her husband, Gadi, is 73.
They lived on Kibbutz Nir Oz the place Judy helped kids to deal with nervousness and stress.
On Oct 7, Gadi and Judy had been out on their every day stroll within the fields of the kibbutz when Hamas’s assault started. Within the final telephone name she made,… pic.twitter.com/YpRKO8upcz
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Gadi was a father of 4 and grandfather of seven. His physique remains to be being held captive in Gaza.