Judih Weinstein Haggai, a 70-year-old who was believed to have been taken hostage by Hamas, was truly killed in the course of the Oct. 7 assaults on Israel, her household and Kibbutz Nir Oz stated in statements on Thursday.
Ms. Haggai’s husband, Gadi Haggai, had additionally been listed as a hostage however the Hostages and Lacking Individuals Households Discussion board introduced final week that he, too, was killed within the assaults.
The discussion board stated the couple had been shot whereas on their morning stroll by way of the fields of the kibbutz, and that Ms. Haggai had managed to tell associates that that they had been injured, her husband critically so.
Ms. Haggai was, in reality, fatally wounded, and her loss of life has now been confirmed, Kibbutz Nir Oz stated on Thursday. Its assertion didn’t specify the way it realized that she had died within the assault.
The couple’s our bodies are being held by Hamas, in keeping with the kibbutz, their household and the Hostages and Lacking Individuals Households Discussion board. The teams stated the couple had been residents of each Israel and the US, and that Ms. Haggai additionally had Canadian citizenship.
President Biden stated he and Jill Biden, the primary girl, had been holding the couple’s “4 youngsters, seven grandchildren and different family members near our hearts.”
“I’ll always remember what their daughter, and the relations of different Individuals held hostage in Gaza, have shared with me,” he stated in an announcement. “They’ve been dwelling by way of hell for weeks.”
Ms. Haggai could be remembered “for the inventive life she constructed along with her husband,” her household stated, including that “their murders are a reminder for leaders all over the place to carry the hostages dwelling now earlier than it’s too late.”
