Katz Asher family

“It's like a horror movie”

Katz Asher family

Doron Asher and her two daughters, Raz (4.5) and Aviv (2.5), came to visit Doron' mother Efrat Katz and her husband Gadi Moses at Kibbutz Nir Oz. On Saturday morning all the members of the household were abducted to Gaza. Efrat was murdered. Doron and her daughters returned to Israel after 49 days in captivity. Gadi (80) returned after 482 days

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    The Katz Asher family reunites after Doron, Raz, and Aviv return from captivity. Photo: Schneider Hospital

    “It's like a horror movie”

    Katz Asher family

    Minute by Minute Circle
    06:30
    06:36
    08:41
    09:12
    09:18
    09:49
    ~10:03
    10:10
    ~11:00
    14:00
    ~15:30

    The sequence of events

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    06:30

    Red color in Nir Oz

    06:36

    Doron: “I hear booms here”

    08:41

    Doron: “There's a lot of shooting here”

    09:12

    First reports of murdered and kidnapped people

    09:18

    Lior updates Doron about a terrorist infiltration

    09:49

    Efrat fears there are terrorists outside the house

    ~10:03

    Terrorists infiltrate the house

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    10:10

    The terrorists loot the house

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    Gadi is kidnapped

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    ~11:00

    Efrat, Doron, Raz and Aviv are kidnapped

    Contact with Efrat, Doron and the girls was cut off

    14:00

    Doron's phone location is triangulated in Khan Younis

    Efrat is killed by a helicopter gunfire

    ~15:30

    Doron and the girls try to return to the Kibbutz but are caught by terrorists

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    Doron and her two daughters, Raz and Aviv, came to visit Doron' mother Efrat and her husband Gadi. When the alarms start, they rush to prepare food for the girls and go into the safe room

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    Raz and Aviv eat in the safe room on Saturday mornings
    Raz and Aviv eat in the safe room on Saturday mornings
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    Doron is texting her sister Lior and updates that she hears echoes of explosions all the time. Lior is a member of the Kibbutz, but on that Saturday she traveled to visit the family of her husband who lives in central Israel

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      Lior Katz Natanzon on the kidnapping of members of her family Media: The “Evening News”, Kan 11
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      Correspondence between Doron and her sister Lior
      Lior
      Dodi?
      06:36 07/10/2023
      Doron
      Whoah whoah
      06:36 07/10/2023
      Lior
      Oh my god!
      06:36 07/10/2023
      Doron
      Already 5 in a row
      06:36 07/10/2023
      Lior
      What is it???
      06:36 07/10/2023
      Doron
      don't know
      06:36 07/10/2023
      Doron
      I hear a lot of booms.
      06:37 07/10/2023
      Lior
      It is also in the center
      06:37 07/10/2023
      Doron
      It sounds like tanks
      06:37 07/10/2023
      Lior
      I hear booms here
      06:37 07/10/2023
      Doron
      What do I do with the girls:/
      06:43 07/10/2023
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      Doron tells her sister that she hears gunfire in the Kibbutz. Lior asks them to stay in the safe room and lock the door

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      Correspondence between Doron and her sister Lior
      Lior
      Are you guys in the safe room
      08:38 07/10/2023
      Doron
      Yes
      08:38 07/10/2023
      Doron
      There is gunfire here
      08:41 07/10/2023
      Lior
      Enter into the safe room
      08:41 07/10/2023
      Lior
      and lock it
      08:41 07/10/2023
      Lior
      What's going on??
      09:10 07/10/2023
      Doron
      There was a fall now close by. here's a lot of gunfire
      09:10 07/10/2023
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      The Kibbutz's messaging application reports of murdered and kidnapped people. Doron shares with Lior she is fearful for their brother's safety, Ravid Katz. Later it became clear that the fear was justified: Ravid was murdered in the morning during an attempt to protect the inhabitants of the Kibbutz

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      Correspondence between Doron and her sister Lior
      Doron
      I'm worried about Ravid
      09:12 07/10/2023
      Doron
      There was a serious shootout here
      09:13 07/10/2023
      Doron
      There are kidnapped people and fatalities
      09:13 07/10/2023
      Lior
      People write in (the kibbutz' app) Mekomi that the terrorists are inside their home
      09:13 07/10/2023
      Lior
      There are kidnapped people and fatalities
      How do you know?
      09:13 07/10/2023
      Doron
      From the news
      09:17 07/10/2023
      Doron
      People write instead of me that the terrorists are inside their home
      What?!
      09:17 07/10/2023
      Doron
      What do you mean inside their home
      09:17 07/10/2023
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      Lior reads on the Kibbutz's messaging application that residents report terrorists infiltrating their home, and she updates Doron about it. Doron asks Lior not to tell her husband, Yoni yet, so that he does not worry

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        Lior Katz Natanzon on the kidnapping of members of her family Media: The Evening News. Kan 11
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        Efrat updates Lior about wounded people in the Kibbutz and that she fears there are terrorists outside the house

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        Correspondence between Efrat and her daughter Lior
        Lior
        What's going on???
        09:49 07/10/2023
        Efrat
        We're closed inside the safe room. We felt like there were people walking out here. We immediately got closed inside the safe room
        09:50 07/10/2023
        Lior
        A mother in the group of mothers Noa sent that they are at home and Regev was injured
        09:50 07/10/2023
        Efrat
        Saeed got injured
        09:51 07/10/2023
        Lior
        What????
        09:52 07/10/2023
        Lior
        How????
        09:52 07/10/2023
        Lior
        Oh my god
        09:52 07/10/2023
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        Three and a half hours from the start of the attack, and after passing through a row of nearby houses, the terrorists enter the family home. Gadi sets out to confront them in order to protect his family. The terrorists demand from Gadi money and the car keys

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        The Kibbutz's messaging application
        Efrat
        The terrorists are with Gadi trying to take money and the car keys. Arguing with Gadi
        10:03 07/10/2023
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        Moses-Katz family house after the terrorist intrusion
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        The terrorist squad ransacks the family house without harming Gadi. He returnes to the safe room

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        Doron updates a family member on what's going on
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        The Kibbutz's messaging application
        Efrat
        They're here for a long time already with knives, Gadi is with them. They took everything they could from the house.
        10:10 07/10/2023
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        The Moses-Katz family house after the terrorists infiltration
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        Gadi walks out again towards the terrorists, who this time take him with them outside the house. A few minutes later, when Gadi does not return, Efrat decides to leave the safe room to look for him - but he has already been kidnapped to Gaza. Lior tries to get in touch with Doron unsuccessfully

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        Yair Moses on the documentation of his father at the time of his kidnapping
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        Media: Kan Reshet Bet
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        Correspondence between Lior and her sister Doron
        Lior
        Dodi?!!!!! What's happening????
        10:01 07/10/2023
        Lior
        Dodi, write to me
        10:03 07/10/2023
        Lior
        Doron
        10:08 07/10/2023
        Lior
        Write to me
        10:14 07/10/2023
        Lior
        What's going on??????
        11:06 07/10/2023
        Lior
        Write to me!!!!!!!!!!!
        11:06 07/10/2023
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        Moses-Katz family house after bombers' infiltration
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        Apparently another squad of terrorists infiltrates the house of the Moses-Katz family and kidnaps Efrat, Doron, Raz and Aviv. The terrorists take them through different houses in the Kibbutz and exit it through a side gate - HaKerem Gate. They are then put together with other people in a cart attached to a tractor and they are all kidnapped to Gaza

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          Documentation of the kidnapping of Efrat, Doron and the girls
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          Yoni Asher, Doron's husband and father of Raz and Aviv, stayed at their house in the Sharon region. He is constantly trying to get in touch with his family. Yoni is interviewed in numerous media outlets and begs for help: “I am literally asking for someone from the security forces to contact me”

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          Yoni Asher: “I haven't had contact with my wife for two and a half hours.”
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          From: Kan Reshet Bet
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          The Kibbutz's messaging application
          Lior
          Please check what is going on with Efrat Katz, Gadi Moses and Doron Katz who are with two little girls there was no contact with them for more than two hours
          12:32 07/10/2023
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          Yoni goes on the air on Kan Reshet Bet and updates that he triangulated the location of Doron's phone and it is found in Khan Younis. Yoni says he fears that Doron, Efrat and the girls have been kidnapped to Gaza. He says he has been unable to contact them for four hours: "I have to get you to spread out the word so I can get in touch with my wife, daughters and mother-in-law".

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          Yoni Asher: “My wife's cell phone was found in Khan Younis, I guess they were kidnapped”
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          From: Kan Reshet Bet
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          An IDF helicopter fires at the terrorists. They are killed, but Efrat is wounded by the gunfire and dies of her wounds a short time later. Doron is injured in her back by shrapnel, she holds Efrat and tries to take her with her - unsuccessfully.

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          Doron runs with the girls in order to escape back to the Kibbutz. Another squad of terrorists arrives in a pickup truck, seizes them and continues on their ride to Gaza

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            Lior Katz Natanzonfor about the kidnapping of members of her family Media: “The Evening News”, Kan 11

            The Day After

            10/17/23

            Efrat's family is notified of of her death

            10/27/23

            The Struggle for the Return of the hostages

            11/24/23

            Doron and the girls return from captivity

            11/28/23

            The death of Ravid Katz is determined

            12/19/23

            A sign of life from Gadi Moses

            30.1.2025

            Gadi returns home
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            Efrat Katz's family is notified of her death

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            Lior Katz Natanzon tells about her kidnapped family members and begs to have them returned home

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              Lior Katz Natanzon asks that her family be returned
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              After 49 days in Gaza, Doron, Raz and Aviv return to Israel and meet their family

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                Doron, Aviv, and Raz meet Yoni for the first time after their return Photography: Schneider Hospital Spokesmanship
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                Family members are notified that Ravid Katz was killed on October 7th. His body is still in Gaza

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                the Islamic Jihad releases video featuring documentation of 79-year-old Gadi Moses

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                Gadi Moses in a documentation from captivity as published by the Islamic Jihad Gadi Moses in a documentation from captivity as published by the Islamic Jihad
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                After 482 days in captivity, Gadi is released in the second hostage deal

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