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Sa'id David Moshe (75) held the safe room door firmly, but the terrorists shattered the window and broke in. Before they murdered him in front of his wife, he gave Adina (72) one last kiss. She was abducted to Gaza and held in tunnels for 49 days, where she met Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. Eventually released and returned to Israel
Adina and Sa'id Moshe
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Sa'id and Adina wake up to the sounds of gunfire and red alerts. That night, they had chosen to sleep in the safe room and they agree now that choosing the safe room had been the right call. They turn on the TV and learn that rocket barrages are striking across the country. Married for 53 years, they have four children and 12 grandchildren
The daughter of Bracha Levinson, a neighbor of the Moshe family, calls Adina, asking her to check on her mother's well-being after seeing a photo on Facebook of her being shot. Adina and Sa'id step outside and spot a large group of people in uniform. Mistaking them for IDF paratroopers due to their red shoes, Adina hesitates, but Sa'id urgently warns her: “Adina, get inside now! They’re terrorists—they have AK-47s.” As they hear them speaking Arabic, the couple rushes into their safe room. The terrorists bypass the Moses family home and raid neighboring houses instead. Adina messages Shahar Butler, the kibbutz's Ravshatz (Military Ongoing Security Coordinator), informing him that their neighbor Bracha Levinson has been injured. He does not respond
Terrorists break into Adina and Sa'id’s home through the balcony and attempt to force open the safe room door. On the other side, Sa'id struggles to keep it shut. The terrorists fire at the door, wounding him in the knee. Adina contacts her neighbor, Gadi Moses, a member of the kibbutz’s emergency team, for instructions on how to help Sa'id. She makes a tourniquet from her trouser drawstring, ties it around his knee, and hides under a small table. Later that day, Gadi Moses is kidnapped to Gaza
While her husband bleeds, the terrorists continue trying to break into the safe room, and Adina desperately calls for help. She messages her children: "Sa'id is badly injured and bleeding. They are trying to break down the door." Three minutes later, she sends another message: "Sa'id is critically wounded, he's losing a lot of blood, and the terrorists won’t stop trying to break in." After this message, all contact with Adina is lost
The terrorists detonate an explosive, shattering the safe room window and using it to enter. They force Adina out through the opening. Sa'id manages to give her one last kiss before a terrorist shoots him twice, right in front of her eyes
Adina is abducted to Gaza on a motorcycle, wedged between two terrorists. On the way to the border, she sees a burnt tank, fallen soldiers, and a frenzied Gazan mob. Meanwhile, the terrorists set Adina and Sa'id’s home ablaze
As the motorcycle speeds through Khan Younis, a city Adina knows well from her time as a volunteer, she sees jubilant children and women rushing toward her. A youngster snatches her eyeglasses. From that moment, she is forced into an hours-long journey through Gaza’s underground tunnels. Initially, she is held captive alongside her kibbutz friend, 85-year-old Yochebed Lifshitz. Later, she encounters other hostages from Kibbutz Nir Oz and Nirim, also imprisoned in the tunnels
For hours, Adina and Sa'id's family members struggle to determine their fate after losing contact with them. Around 2 p.m., they come across a video circulated by Hamas on social media, showing Adina on a motorcycle, wedged between two terrorists, being taken through the streets. That’s when they realize she has been abducted
Sa'id's farewell ceremony takes place at the Lehavim Local Council. From there, accompanied by the military, family members and close relatives proceed to a private burial in Kibbutz Nir Oz. For the family, it was essential to lay Sa'id to rest in the land he loved and nurtured as a devoted farmer. His tombstone bears the inscription: "Our steadfast family rock, generous at heart, noble in spirit, a man of the land who loved people. A hero in life and in death. Loved and forever missed."
The Tomb of Syed Moshe in Nir Oz
The terrorists guarding Adina and the other hostages are heavily armed and intimidating. Determined to ease the tension, Adina approaches their commander and asks them to put down their weapons—and they comply. One day, Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar arrives at their tunnel and speaks to them in Hebrew. Meanwhile, Adina's family continues to campaign relentlessly for her release
The Khan Younis Tunnel Where Adina Moshe Was Held
Photo: IDF Spokesman 
Holding 'Kidnapped' Posters: Sa'id and Adina Moshe's Family Members
After 49 days in Hamas captivity, Adina is released. As she and the other freed hostages are transferred to a Red Cross vehicle, a frenzied mob pelts them with stones
