Doron Asher has garnered public sympathy due to a distressing video showing her and her daughter being held hostage amid the ongoing crisis between Israel and Hamas.
Who is Doron Asher?
Doron Asher is among the hundreds of Israeli people who were captured and held hostage by Hamas militants.
Doron Asher, a 34-year-old woman was kidnapped by Hamas militants along with a 25-year-old student. Asher had her two young daughters during a series of terrifying raids into Nir Oz village in Israel.
A video of the student screaming “don’t kill us” has gone viral.
Where is Doron Asher and her daughters now?
According to a publication in the New York Post, Doron Asher, who was terrified after their capture. She called her husband, Yoni, back in central Israel.
Unfortunately, the phone call got cut off, and he hasn’t heard from her since.
Yoni tracked Doron Asher’s phone, which indicated her location across the border in Gaza.
“I definitely saw my wife, my two daughters, and my mother-in-law on some sort of cart with Hamas terrorists surrounding them.
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My two little girls are just babies, not even 5 years old and 3 years old. I don’t know the conditions they are in. I don’t know what happened to them,” he said.
Her husband has pleaded with the kidnappers to allow him to turn himself in if his wife and daughter were released.
What’s the situation between Israel and Hamas?
On October 7, 2023, Palestinian militant groups, mainly Hamas, launched rockets and vehicle-transported attacks from the Gaza Strip into Israeli communities.
Tensions escalated when the Palestinian Authority government split into Fatah in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza.
This division led to violent conflicts after Fatah lost elections to Hamas.
Attacks on Israel, Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, and the joint Egyptian-Israeli blockade of Gaza have worsened the situation.
