The last message of a mother missing in the Hamas attack on Israel: "God, it was a mistake to come here"

On Saturday, October 7, the Islamist group Hamas attacked several Israeli cities, unleashing Israel's response in the form of bombings on the Gaza Strip and the declaration of a state of war, and one of those targets was the Nova Music Festival, near from kibbutz Reim, in the middle of the Negev desert; which resulted in hundreds of deaths and the disappearance of Ido Nagar's wife, reported by the BBC.

Celine Ben David Nagar and Ido Nagar are parents to Ellie, a six-month-old little girl who has not heard from her mother for a week.

Celine left the attacks on Saturday with a couple of friends for the south of Israel, where they were going to attend the aforementioned festival, but they turned back when they began to hear the sounds of rockets in the distance, according to Gone to the Wall. BBC.

The three attendees of the music festival took refuge near Sderot from where Celine sent the last message to her husband: “Soldiers are coming”, “God, it was a mistake to come here.”

The father of the family received the message at 7:11 a.m. and when he read it he immediately went out in search of him, but “the military did not let him pass,” the BBC explains.

The next day, with the uncertainty of not knowing anything about his wife's whereabouts and without any new news from her and her companions, he found the car in which they had traveled with gunshot wounds.

The man did not lose hope and continued his search, which brought him a meeting with one of the survivors of the attack, who told him that the girl had survived, but her friends had died when Hamas militants threw grenades at the place where they were sheltering. as he told the BBC.

A week later, Ido's only certainty to continue searching for Celine is that her body has not been found.

Without eating and sleeping due to uncertainty

The Israeli couple lives near Tel Aviv, and, from his home, Ido says that this situation does not allow him to eat or sleep because “you are in a kind of crazy uncertainty” and “totally helpless.”

Now, his friends and family are in charge of bringing him “food and milk to feed Ellie, whom Celine was breastfeeding,” while he clings to any information that could clarify his wife's whereabouts.

“I try to fight this in every way I can think of, I try to be optimistic and have positive thoughts,” Ido tells the BBC, “I want to believe that she is alive there, in Gaza, and maybe she is taking care of the children who were kidnapped with her” and “I just hope she knows that we are fighting for her and that she tells herself that she will come home.”

During his telephone interview with the BBC “he burst into tears while trying to describe his wife, an administrative assistant at the law firm where he works, who grew up in France and is a French-Israeli citizen.”