Judih Weinstein Haggai, a 70-year-old who was believed to have been taken hostage by Hamas, was truly killed throughout the Oct. 7 assaults on Israel, her household and Kibbutz Nir Oz mentioned 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 mentioned the couple have been shot whereas on their morning stroll via the fields of the kibbutz, and that Ms. Haggai had managed to tell mates that that they had been injured, her husband critically so.
Ms. Haggai was, in truth, fatally wounded, and her demise has now been confirmed, Kibbutz Nir Oz mentioned on Thursday. Its assertion didn’t specify the way it discovered that she had died within the assault.
The couple’s our bodies are being held by Hamas, in line with the kibbutz, their household and the Hostages and Lacking Individuals Households Discussion board. The teams mentioned the couple have been residents of each Israel and the USA, and that Ms. Haggai additionally had Canadian citizenship.
President Biden mentioned he and Jill Biden, the primary woman, have been holding the couple’s “4 kids, seven grandchildren and different family members near our hearts.”
“I’ll always remember what their daughter, and the relations of different People held hostage in Gaza, have shared with me,” he mentioned in a press release. “They’ve been dwelling via hell for weeks.”
Ms. Haggai could be remembered “for the artistic life she constructed along with her husband,” her household mentioned, including that “their murders are a reminder for leaders in every single place to carry the hostages house now earlier than it’s too late.”
