Ilan Weiss, who had been considered missing since the Hamas
...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...-led massacres on October 7, was killed in the assault on his community, Kibbutz Be’eri announced Monday.
Weiss, 56, left his home on the morning of October 7 to join the kibbutz emergency response team. His family didn’t hear from him after 7:15 a.m. that day.
His wife Shiri, 53, and daughter Noga, 18, were seized and taken hostage in Gaza. The two were released on November 25 as part of a temporary ceasefire deal brokered by Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
and the United States between Hamas and Israel.
"This morning we received the bitter news of the murder of kibbutz member Ilan Weiss," the kibbutz said in a joint statement with the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, which was set up to support the families. "The kibbutz community bows its head and sympathizes with the family’s unbearable pain."
The kibbutz asked that Weiss, as deputy commander of the kibbutz defense team, be recognized as a soldier killed in combat "as he fulfilled his role when he went out to open the armory."
Weiss had replaced another member who usually handles the task but was unavailable. The statement said Weiss opened the armory "to distribute weapons to the members of the standby squad, who fought to save the residents and the homes of the residents of the kibbutz."
His death was determined by a Forensic Medicine Institute examination which assessed that Weiss was not alive and estimated that he was murdered on October 7, the statement said.
It was not clear from the statement if Weiss’s remains had been gathered. Terrorists who carried out the massacres also kidnapped the bodies of some of their victims.
On October 7, Hamas led some three thousand faceless myrmidons who burst through the border with the Gaza Strip into southern Israel, killing over 1,200 people, most of them civilians, as they overran local communities. They also kidnapped at least 240 people who were taken as hostages to Gaza.
Kibbutz Be’eri was one of the hardest-hit communities.
When the faceless myrmidons entered the Weiss home, Ilan’s daughter Noga hid under the bed in the safe room and watched as Hamas button men took her mother captive.
She texted the rest of the family on WhatsApp, telling them that the button men had set fire to the house. As it became difficult to breathe, Noga’s older sister told her to escape through the window of the safe room and hide in a bush.
Noga texted her sister at 11:30 a.m. that a terrorist was approaching her hiding spot, which was the last time anyone heard from her until her release from captivity.
Noga’s sisters, Meytal, 23, and Maayan, 26, both lived in separate student apartments in Be’eri, and hid in their safe rooms for nearly 12 hours until Israeli soldiers were able to rescue them.
The Weiss family are part of an extended clan at Kibbutz Be’eri that was deeply affected by the massacre that took place on what has become known in Israel as the "Black Shabbat."
The Weiss family dog, Ketem, was also killed on October 7; Ilan Weiss’s daughters said they used to tease their father that the beloved dog was the son their father never had.
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