Elma Avraham has been living in Kibbutz Nahal Oz for 49 years until the heinous attack that caused it to empty from its inhabitants. Her son, Uri Rawitz, talks about her on video.
"My mother is a beautiful woman, she has always been like that. She's beautiful inside and out. She has this naivety of those who built this country, especially the Kibbutz people down south.
"I woke up at 7:30 to the sounds of siren and Iron Dome interceptions. I knew that if it's happening in Tel Aviv – it's definitely happening there. I called her and she told me what was going on there – they were in their bomb shelters, they were told not to leave, she was alone. I have a brother who also lives there, but he was in his room. She told me she couldn't talk to him. She told me there's been an infiltration in Sderot and it took me a while to realize she was saying 'and here too'.
"The hours went by, another hour, another two, and so it went on for 10-11 hours. At some point I texted my brother and managed to communicate with him. Two soldiers accompanied him to my mother's house. He found the house broken into, ransacked, bomb shelter open, her bed turned over and my mother gone.
"I got it from my sister. She wrote to me: 'Uri, Mom was likely kidnapped'. An hour later we received, I don't even know who from, a photo. I looked at the photo and saw my mother. My 84-year-old mother sitting on a motorcycle, with a woman I don't know sitting in front of her. I see two armed men. She's facing away, but it's absolutely clear to me that's my mother.
"Please bring my mother, Elma Avraham, back home."
