Relatives had been holding out hope that American-Israeli Carmela Dan, 80, and her 13-year-old granddaughter, Noya, were still alive as hostages.
It’s unclear how long the bodies of 80-year-old Carmela Dan, the “matriarch” of her family, and her 12-year-old granddaughter Noya had been there for—but the discovery crushed relatives’ hopes that the pair may still be alive and held hostage inNoya had gone to her grandma’s house in Kibbutz Nir Oz, about three miles from the Gaza border, on Oct. 6 to stay the night—something relatives said she did often.
show. Images showed a collapsed ceiling, charred walls, and smashed windows. A child’s bike and doll were lying among the ruin. “Kidnapping children is despicable and wholly unjustifiable,” Rowling wrote. “For obvious reasons, this picture has hit home with me. May Noya and all hostages taken by Hamas be returned soon, safely, to their families.”“They had taken shelter from the rockets when the air raid alert went off,” he said, according to theA line of burnt cars in Kibbutz Nir Oz nearly two weeks after Hamas set much of the community ablaze.
Onn wrote that her family communicated in a group text on WhatsApp in their final moments of freedom. In one text, she said, a relative wrote: “We can hear Arabic, they’re in our house now, they’re overturning everything. We can hear our neighbors being killed.”Onn wrote that her family had held out hope that Carmela and Noya were alive and being held as hostages largely because they spotted Onn’s cousin, 12-year-old Erez Calderon, being “violently dragged away” by a member of Hamas.