Eli Sharabi huddled with his wife, Lianne, and their teenage daughters, Noiya (16) and Yahel (13), in their safe room for hours, reading frantic texts from their neighbors in Kibbutz Be'eri as terrorists closed in.
When Hamas gunmen burst in and shots rang out, Eli and Lianne threw themselves over their daughters to shield them. They had British passports and begged for their family to be spared, but their pleas fell on deaf ears. Before the monsters dragged Eli out of his home, taking him captive to Gaza, he turned to his daughters and said, "I'll come back."
For 491 days, Eli endured starvation and beatings, clinging to the hope that he would be reunited with his family. Emaciated and weighing just 97 pounds when he was finally released, Eli learned that the barbaric devils had set his home on fire shortly after he was taken, with his wife and daughters inside—all three were burned to death. His brother, who was taken hostage separately, was gone too. Everything he had fought to return to had been taken from him.
THAT'S WHO YOU'RE DEFENDING.
THAT'S HAMAS.