“It’s a ghost town,” said Noam Sagi as he returned to the Nir Oz kibbutz for the first time since his mother, Ada, 75, was abducted by Hamas gunmen.
He had arrived from London to continue campaigning for the release of the 240 hostages who were snatched from their homes on 7 October, but he also wanted to make sense of what happened to Ada, who last messaged her family at 9.24am on what some in Israel now refer to as “Black Saturday”.
