Cheshire mum video calls dad as home is attacked by Hamas... to be told her step-mum is dead
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA mum-of-two has spoken of the “nightmare” of discovering her step-mum and five members her family had been murdered in an attack by Hamas.
Naomi Cohen watched the news in horror last Saturday as she prayed her dad Julian Cohen, 76, and his partner Carol SimanTov were still alive as Hamas gunmen breached the border with Israel.
Julian, who grew up in London, was hiding in his home in Kibbutz Nir-Oz, near the Gaza Strip, where he has lived for the last seven years He was FaceTiming a distraught Naomi more than 2,000 miles away in Warrington, Cheshire, as Hamas tried to break into his safe room twice and ransacked his house.
He was rescued 10 hours later only to find his partner Carol, 70, had been brutally murdered in their home along with her 36-year-old son Johnny, his wife Tamar Kedem, 35, and their children, five-year-old twins, Arbel and Shachar, and Omer, three, were killed in their nearby homes.
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