לֶּ ה אֶ זְ כְּ רָ הֵא
ה אָ מַ רֹכּ
פְ שִַׁנ
ְָי י םַע ל ־ הַ גְ ל וֹ תָ
ל ־ שְׁ ל שָׁ ה פִּ שְׁ עֵ י עַ זָּ הַע ל וּ ת שְׁ לֵ מָ ה לְ הַ סְָגּ
עַ ל ־ אַרְְו
דִֵז
י ר לֶֽ אֱ ד וֹ ם : ִגּ
עָ ה S א אֲ שִָׁבּ
ְו י עָ לַ י אֶשְׁ פְּ כָ ה . כִּ י בְ לָ ע וּ נ וּ ים כְּ עֻ גָ ה בְּ לִ י הֲפוּכָה . These I will remember . I pour out my very soul . Those insatiably bent on evil have devoured us .
י בֶ נּ וּ
“ Thus said God : ‘ For three sins of Gaza , for four , I will not turn away from punishment : because they took many hostages into captivity , whom they delivered to Edom .’” ( Amos 1:6 )
Hamas took 253 hostages into captivity in Gaza as part of the terrorism of October 7 . These included seniors , like 85-year-old Yocheved Lifshitz , whose captors beat her during her removal to Gaza by motorcycle . The oldest Israeli taken hostage was Shlomo Mansour , age 86 . His wife of 60 years and their 15 grandchildren pray for his safe return . Hostages also included infants , like 9-month-old Kfir Bibas , whose first birthday would pass without loved ones knowing if he was still alive .
Among the hostages were men and women , young and old , civilians and those in the military . 23-year-old Hersh Goldberg-Polin , who holds dual U . S . and Israeli citizenship , lost an arm in the attack before being taken hostage . Itai Chen , also of U . S . -Israeli citizenship was believed held hostage . His parents , honored guests at this year ’ s Sate of the Union Address , learned days later that their son had actually been murdered on October 7 , at the age of 19 . Yarden Roman-Gat , a 36-year-old woman with both German and
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