[ad_1] When Mor and Adi Bayder couldn’t get through to their grandmother, an Israeli resident of a community which lives close to the Gaza border, t
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When Mor and Adi Bayder couldn’t get through to their grandmother, an Israeli resident of a community which lives close to the Gaza border, they were worried.
Fighting broke out on Saturday after Hamas, the Palestinian militant group which rules the Gaza Strip, launched an extensive multi-pronged attack against Israel.
Thousands of rockets were fired from Gaza while militants infiltrated Israeli communities, massacring hundreds and abducting some 150 hostages.
Mor and Adi quickly called their grandmother, who has not been named, to check she was OK.
“She told us that she was OK,” Adi said. But a short while later, she had stopped answering calls.
In a separate post, Mor revealed she logged onto Facebook where she watched her grandmother being murdered by a Hamas militant.
“A terrorist came home to her, killed her, took her phone, filmed the horror and published it on her Facebook wall. This is how we found out.”
“I never thought I would reach such a reality at all,” said Adi Bayder in a tribute post on Facebook.
The two women described their grandmother as the matriarch and “pillar” of the family.
Mor said she was “the purest thing in the world, the light of my life, my whole world”.
Adi added: “How do you get on with life without her at all? But we have to because that’s how she would want it, she would want us to stay strong and united and that’s how it will be.”
Israeli TV channels said the death toll from the Hamas attack had climbed to 900 Israelis, with at least 2,600 injured and dozens taken captive.
Among the Israeli dead were 260 mostly young people gunned down at a desert dance party. A day later dozens of survivors were still emerging from hiding.
Gaza’s health ministry said at least 687 Palestinians had also been killed and 3,726 wounded in Israeli air strikes on the blockaded enclave since Saturday.
Apartment blocks and hospitals were among the sites attacked, according to media reports.
Israel says it has secured its border with Gaza.
While no militants have crossed in the past day but the bodies of 1,500 have been recovered, the Israeli army has said.
Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip have continued overnight on Monday with 200 targets were hit and neighbourhoods flattened.
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