Israeli girls ‘were raped over their friends’ bodies’ by Hamas terrorists who carried out ‘a second Holocaust’, British relatives reveal as they condemn those who celebrated the atrocities in Gaza, Iran and London

Hamas terrorists ‘raped girls over their friends’ bodies’ as they carried out ‘a second Holocaust’, British family members of Israeli captives seized by gunmen alleged today in a London press conference. 

Two British nationals, Noam Sagi and Sharon Lifschitz, spoke of how their elderly parents were torn from their beds and forcibly deported to Gaza by Hamas along with children and young people, and implored governments to help in their recovery while deploring the actions of the attackers. 

‘I shouldn’t be here today, I was supposed to go to Heathrow to pick up my mum. I am here because of pure evil,’ Noam said.

‘On Saturday morning, the Kibbutz where I was born and grew up, woke up to a massacre – to a second Holocaust. Mostly young kids and old elderly people. They burned the place to the ground, shot the dogs. Nothing left.

‘People who survived the Holocaust found themselves facing another one. One of the hostages was on the Kinder transport,’ Noam, 53, said.

‘They have taken so much from our community. These are our children, our parents. My mum was taken out, disconnected from her oxygen in order to be loaded onto a motorbike… You have to be a special sort of person to take an 85-year-old out of her bed don’t you?’ Sharon, 52, asked tearfully.

Sharon Lifschitz, right, and Noam Sagi, left, sit down for a press conference of British children of Israeli hostages at a hotel in London

A house is completely destroyed after being burned by Hamas militants during the attack at Kibbutz Be’eri, near the border with Gaza on October 11, 2023 in Be’eri, Israel

Noam is a London-based psychotherapist who grew up on Kibbutz Nir Oz. 

His 75-year-old mother, Ada Sagi, was taken hostage on October 7. 

Sharon Lifschitz, 52, is an artist and academic whose parents are peace activists aged 85 and 83 and were taken hostage too.

As the conference began, the host gave an impassioned speech before handing over to Noam and Sharon.

‘Hamas… is a modern day death squad. They went door to door, snatched babies from their mothers and children from their beds and brutally, cold-bloodedly slaughtered them,’ she said.

‘Girls were raped over their friends’ bodies, many survivors were kidnapped.

‘These horrific acts were celebrated on the streets of Tehran, Gaza and even by some here in London.

‘We have never before in Israel experienced such a traumatic event, which will take years, if not generations, to overcome.

‘This is the biggest hostage crisis the world has faced in decades.’