Heartbreaking moment Israeli woman learns her missing husband has been killed by Hamas
This is the heartbreaking moment an Israeli mother learns that the body of her husband has been found after he disappeared in the Kfar Aza massacre.
Shaylee Atary and her daughter Shaya escaped after more than 24 hours of hiding while Hamas terrorists tried to break into their home in the Kfar Aza kibbutz – where gunmen massacred families, including 40 children, in an attack which has sparked global outrage.
The Israeli singer chose to speak to Sky News about her husband, Yahav Winner, who had been missing since the kibbutz – popular with young parents – came under attack from some 70 Hamas terrorists at dawn on Saturday.
Footage – which the family gave permission to be aired to highlight the horrors of the war which has claimed more than 2,200 lives – shows Ms Atary clutching her one-month-old newborn as she says her filmmaker husband could be ‘injured somewhere’ or ‘kidnapped’.
During the interview, Ms Atary then appears to speak to her mother, who has dropped to the floor in the hallway with her head in her hands after receiving a sickening update in a phone call from the Israel Defence Forces.
The young woman repeatedly shouts ‘Ma, Ma’ as her mother stays silent – but other family members take the newborn from her hands so she can find out what has happened.
She then starts to wail uncontrollably as relatives unite in grief and gather around her. A narrator on the video reveals that Ms Atary has just received the dreaded news that her husband has been killed.
Sky’s chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay – who was conducting the interview – said: ‘This is the horror of war. The family has allowed us to show this so that everyone understands what it is like.’
In a separate interview earlier this week, Ms Atary had revealed how she had to hide in a warehouse with her baby with no food or water for 27 hours while Hamas militants carried out a horrifying massacre.
Ms Atary said she ran into a storeroom before covering her and her baby with sacks of soil. When she heard the gunmen getting closer again, she ran across the lawn as the terrorists fired at her.
She was taken in by a family who let her hide in their saferoom, where they waited until they were rescued. ‘I really don’t know where our state was,’ she said. ‘They abandoned us. They were on Twitter. That’s where they were.’
The mother and daughter suffered smoke inhalation but they were eventually rescued by the IDF and taken to a hospital.
Mr Winner won the best cinematography prize at this year’s Tel Aviv International Students Film Festival for his short film The Boy, according to ScreenDaily.com.