The photos and videos of Yaffa Adar (85) being driven with her mobility scooter by Hamas terrorists were seen all over the world. But Yaffa's granddaughter, Orian, knows her granny is living on borrowed time since she doesn't have her medication under Hamas' authority. She talks about Yaffa, and her cousin Tamir (38), who's also missing, on video.
"We wake up on Saturday morning. We were supposed to go to my grandmother, and a little before 9:00am my grandmother wrote to us that there are terrorists in the Kibbutz and that there's fighting going on on the streets of the Kibbutz. I saw that message immediately, and wrote back to her 'God forbid! Please stay safe'. Now I know she red that message, because it shows two blue ticks – but further messages she didn't read, and afternoon, when the army finally arrived, they went from house to house, and got to my grandmother's house and discovered it totally destroyed, and my grandma was not there, and my cousin Tamir left in the morning to try to protect his home and never came back, and we don't know what happened to him, and he has two little kids.
"That same night, when I finally put my kids to bed, I allowed myself to feel and cry, and my husband tried to cheer me up and showed me the video the whole country has seen – but that's the toughest moment I had during this whole time, because it was easier to think my grandma is dead, that she's not with us but that she parted from life as calmly as possible, rather than (knowing) she's going whatever she's going through now.
"She's a fluent and sharp woman, and understands anything she goes through. Still, like any other 85-year-old woman, her body is not the same it used to be. If she's still with us – and we don't know if she can still survive these days without her medication – My daughter, Ofir, had a birthday on Tuesday and she's still awaiting grandma Yaffa's present, because she knows grandma Yaffa's present is always the best gift.
"We have so many casualties in this country, so many, and my heart burns for each of them – but we have people we know are still alive not far from us, and if we don't do something swiftly, but really swiftly, we will find bodies, we will find more dead people.
"Bring my grandma back home now!"
