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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Tara Cobham

Mother reveals last thing she heard from her 12-year-old son before he was stolen by Hamas

Renana Jacob

An Israeli mother has revealed the last thing she heard from her 12-year-old son just before he was taken hostage by Hamas.

Renana Jacob was visiting a friend in a nearby kibbutz on a “normal Saturday morning”, while her sons, Or and Yagel, aged 16 and 12, were at home asleep in their beds in Kibbutz Nir-Oz when the militants launched their bloody attack on Israel on 7 October.

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