Noya, 12, and her grandmother Carmela are feared to have been taken hostage by Hamas (Picture: Roland Hoskins)
A distraught Israeli mum has revealed she had to listen to Hamas kidnap her young daughter and elderly mum.
Galit Dan, 53, was just five miles away when her terrified daughter, Noya, 12, whispered in a last message: ‘Help me.’
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Noya and her 80-year-old grandmother, Carmela, are believed to have been taken hostage into Gaza.
Galit said how she dropped Noya off for a sleepover at her grandmother’s house just hours before Hamas attacked.
As the invasion began on Saturday morning Galit fled to a fortified panic room with Noya’s stepdad and her other daughter Tomal, nine.
Galit then received a heartbreaking voice message from her daughter: ‘Mummy I’m scared. There are people in the house – help me.’
Nothing has been heard of her or her grandmother since.
Noya was dropped off at Carmela’s house for a sleepover just hours before the invasion began (Picture: Roland Hoskins)
They are feared to be among the 150 people taken as hostages to Gaza bunkers, threatened with execution of video by Hamas.
Galit told The Sun: ‘The pain is indescribable. My little girl went for a sleepover with her granny and was messaging us as these animals came for them.
‘Our best hope now is that they have been kidnapped and will somehow survive.
‘I am desperate to see my beautiful daughter home and beg anyone with power to do whatever they can.
‘I am living every parent’s nightmare — every parent in the world will feel our pain.’
Galit Dan lsitenined to her daughter’s last voice message before she was kidnapped (Picture: Roland Hoskins)
Noya’s stepdad, Inon, added Noya has high-functioning autism and is easily distressed by noise.
‘Noya is a very sweet, very funny, very clever little girl — but she is also extremely sensitive because of her autism.,’ he said.
‘It was heartbreaking hearing her last voice message begging for help when we were so powerless and surrounded by men trying to kill us.’
He revealed he could hear Hamas soldiers shout ‘slaughter the Jews’ as the invasion started.
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The war, which has claimed at least 2,100 lives on both sides, is only expected to escalate as Israel remains determined to crush the militant group.
In Israel, at least 1,200 have been killed, while officials in Gaza say 900 people have been killed.
At least 140 Palestinian children have been killed by the Israeli military as they launched an offensive on Gaza over the weekend, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Israeli forces vowed to turn the Gaza Strip into ‘rubble’ following the surprise attack by Hamas on October 7 and have launched retaliatory strikes in over 200 locations.
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