Possible Hungarian victim of Hamas terror attack?

Another Hungarian-Israeli family experienced the consequences of the Hamas terrorist attack on an Israeli kibbutz in early October. According to a relative, a member of this family is believed to be a victim of the attack.

Hungarian-Israelis affected by the Hamas attack

As we reported a few days earlier, it has been confirmed that Hamas has taken Hungarian-Israeli children hostage. The Foreign Ministry acknowledged last week that it was aware of a total of four Hungarian hostages. However, according to recent reports in Hetek, another Hungarian-Israeli teenage girl is also being held hostage by Hamas.

Growing concern

Reports indicated that during the attack, the teenage girl and her mother were forcibly taken to Gaza by Hamas jihadists. Unfortunately, no news has surfaced regarding the father, also a Hungarian-Israeli, who is currently reported as missing.

Hungarian-Israeli victim

Osnat Weiss, a Hungarian-Israeli, chose to share his family’s traumatic experience. He revealed that several family members resided in the Be’eri kibbutz, the very village where terrorists carried out a brutal massacre. Osnat’s brother, Ilan, remains missing since the attack, while his wife (Shiri) and 18-year-old daughter (Noga) were taken hostage by Hamas jihadists in Gaza. The parents’ other two older daughters, however, were rescued safely from the kibbutz and found refuge in another apartment, as reported by atv.hu.

Osnat also disclosed that his other brother, Amir, who also held Hungarian citizenship, tragically lost his life along with his wife during the attack. So according to Hetek, there is a Hungarian victim of the Hamas terror attack. However, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has not yet confirmed the news.

Minister: Government unaware of Hungarian fatalities in Israel

Hungary’s government remains unaware of any Hungarian citizens having died in Israel, and reports of Hungarian fatalities in the Middle Eastern country have proven to be untrue, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on Tuesday. The government knows of five hostages with Hungarian citizenship in Gaza, having been notified recently of another adult hostage, Szijjártó shared, according to a ministry statement.

He said certain media outlets had blamed the government for having been unaware of the hostages until recently. Szijjártó called for “a minimal degree of fairness”, pointing out that the Hungarian authorities could only be made aware of the hostages if they are notified by the Israeli authorities or relatives.

There had been several cases, he said, of entire families being abducted, with no one left to alert the government, until their more distant relatives realised that they had been taken hostage. “But there are also regrettable cases where the entire family of the individual taken hostage died,” he added.

“So to expect us, in a situation like this, to be aware of someone having been taken hostage before they notify us, is unfair on the part of certain media outlets, to put it mildly,” Szijjártó said.