Lishay Lavi had only seconds to give her husband Omri a last message before he was taken into captivity by Hamas fighter who stormed their kibbutz during the attack on Israel on Oct 7.

Now staying with family in another kibbutz in southern Israel, she said she knew what was happening when the fighter broke in, forced the family out in their pyjamas at gunpoint to a neighbouring home, and took away her 46-year-old husband.

“I told him four sentences,” she said. “I told him that I love him, I told him that I (will) guard our daughter, that I’m waiting for him, and I told him also, ‘Don’t be a hero, because I want you back here’.”

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