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Evening Standard
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Miriam Burrell

Father distraught as wife and daughters taken as Hamas hostages

The father of two young girls feared to be taken hostage by Hamas along with their mother said it’s “the hardest thing” not knowing if they’re alive.

Yoni Asher said his wife Doron, 34, and their daughters Raz, 5, and Avivi, 3, were staying with family in Israel, close to the border with Gaza, when the Palestinian militant group carried out the deadliest attack on Israel in 50 years on Saturday.

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