Relatives of American mother and daughter missing in Israel speak out

Relatives of Americans Natalie Raanan and her mother Judith - both feared to have been taken hostage by Hamas - speak out. Tamar Levitan, Natalie’s grandmother and Judith’s mother, pleads for Hamas to “think of them as if they are your daughter and your granddaughter.”
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[@solomonmoeller1166]

My prayers are with them. God please bring them home. Give those women strength.

[@realeyez_KT]

Praying for every innocent israeli and Palestinian. We need to find peace. Every government is guilty

[@Seers2you24]

Delusional

[@Ayeo998]

It is not possible to have peace with savages who parade dead bodies and hostages through their streets.

[@nancyj.ellington6407]

Heartbreaking for ALL concerned.

[@SusieQZee]

Amen

[@hunters6940]

@@Seers2you24 How

[@hollybraning6806]

I'm so sorry for the pain and grief you're feeling right now. I pray that your loved ones will soon be home so you can hug them..

[@barranco9358]

Please God bring them home Amen 🙏🙏🏿💔

[@irvingbagley5445]

I pray 🙏 for her that she gets her children back safe. ❤❤❤

[@wendyladybug355laurie4]

MAY GOD BLESS THEM ALL & KEEP THEM SAFE❤❤ Please RETURN THEM SAFELY ❤❤

[@NaeNae0613]

Prayers for this family I hope and pray their family member gets returned safely home, and all this ends.

[@pattymillman3627]

Praying for your family

[@annettaliverpool2315]

Daughters, grand - daughters, sons, all families.

[@gigib.965]

God please protect them and bring them home safely…God please stop all the wars going on…Protect the innocent and bring justice to the warmongers……in Jesus name I pray 🙏🏼 amen

[@megg.1610]

I feel bad for the older woman. It must be torture

[@akashasashes]

🙏prayers for all innocent hostages safe return...to all the families i pray G-d comforts you all💔🙏🕊🌹

[@redgamingtv6528]

This is heart breaking💔😭 Hamas are absolute *monsters!* Israel has *every* *right* *to* *defend* *itself* and fight back against Hamas terrorists!

[@samtaulli8504]

Word for word what Israel wants

[@nitharsanam630]

Everyone has eight to live free regardless of any differences. I hope they will be back safely.

[@generaljg4373]

Palestine has the right to defend their country,

[@ash4foos]

@@generaljg4373yes they do!!!!

[@alokoza3301]

​@@generaljg4373yes,I agree Palestine has every right to defend as much as the Israel does but I will never support the actions of Hamas !

[@yoyo-dj5bv]

This is so heart wrenching to watch. I pray for their safe return. God bless.

[@kurtwauters6159]

That country is in war for many decades, going there involves risks, people never learn.

[@Zeena5400]

The pain in their eyes...so tragic

[@mm-px4io]

It's always one-sided. Did they think of the palestinian children who suffer?

[@marykaty4801]

I agree! Double standards 🤮

[@donnacaldwell3267]

Palestinians are hiding behind their own children and killing them too. They value death like we value life.

[@edwardtelles1956]

Funny : I don't remember seeing those pictures of the 45 Palestinian Children with their Heads Cut Off... TURN GAZA TO GLASS

[@carlarogerson5198]

They did not harm any palestinians... civillians innocent children should not be decapitated

[@Evemax678]

My prayers go out to everyone in Israel. God Bless You all and keep you safe. 😢

[@susanlawson5926]

PRAYING THIS AND OTHER FAMILIES FIND THEIR LOVED ONES AND R RETURNED TO THEM❣️I can’t imagine what those families R going through….

[@MariaGonzalez-d8d]

They will come back! I pray for you and your family peace and God bless y’all!

[@88tirtles]

If they could be in America, why are they in Isreal? Who would ever want to live there

[@Deliverydragon]

Why were they there anyways not a safe place

[@kimrodgers7915]

Oh God bring them home safely to their family. God bless people of Israel 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@cheryljenkins6029]

Lord please help in the name of Jesus Amen ❤❤ 🙏 thank you Jesus Amen

[@endtimes9763]

Father God please reunite her with her relatives

[@JudyGoodwin-l9b]

Its so sad to see these people exploited by the news media for ratings. I realize the story needs public attention but to prey apon these families in their distress seems so wrong to me. I hope their pleas do not fall on deaf ears and that the kidnapping victims will be released. Using human beings as shield's is an act of cowardice.

[@shannonfrensemeier2784]

All our prayers are with them God please bring them home safe soon 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏😢❤️

[@mariegraves8202]

People are disgusting!🖤🖤

[@SAGECREW]

Prayers for you all

[@ngreat4390]

Everyone wants their loved ones back home. Oh God send peace to Jerusalem!🙏

[@PaulHanson-zo5qj]

So so SAD !

[@wendyroe8450]

Please Lord!!! bring them home safely

[@debraharriott6558]

God bless 🙌 🙏 ❤️ Keep family together 😢 These WARS must STOP ✋️

[@darrenmcchesney4209]

Prayer’s & They know they want the same thing ! God Bless them . AMEN 🙏🏻

[@sandradalessandro2935]

💙💙🙏🏻hear our collective prayers dear god. Protect these innocent lives. Bring this family back together. Bring peace n luv n blessings back to Israel. Dear father. Bring. Justice 🧿🦋💙🙏🏻

[@Xestra37490]

The lord have power over evil. We can only pray and trust him.

[@debrabrown2615]

What has happened to aAmnesty International ????😢

[@johnfuller6870]

Terrorist don’t abide by rules

[@cigancigo1669]

​@@johnfuller6870same as israel

[@charlenevimont7316]

❤God help us all!

[@jenniesilvestri7320]

Prayers to you, your family and all the people of Israel and the innocent people of Palestine 🙏

[@sallyshore-dz8rn]

Palestinians are crying too. For 66 years.

[@gangaraymond3997]

Sorry, get your facts right. Palestinians started with terrorism right from the beginning. Israel only responded, never terrorised, never targeted innocent civilians. Hamad is the cause of all the suffering Nd pain. They have no heart.

[@sallyshore-dz8rn]

@@gangaraymond3997 you're a brainwashed zombie. History doesn't lie. Two weeks before this attack, Israel attacked Palestinians without cause.

[@amychima6124]

Both governments are guilty innocent children and people getting killed it’s too much we need peace

[@jfhjr5097]

Horrific.

[@bonniesalyers9195]

I pray god will ease their fear and givecthem strenth to bear what they must

[@luismoran9425]

Both tribes need to find a half way point or this will never😢😢 end

[@mehmoodbhanji8486]

Salam, Why did NBC fire Muslim anchors?

[@crowjones78]

Nbc is always there to stand on graves

[@jaxcollins4937]

Fr

[@jaimietucker1974]

There is nothing you can do we the USA needs to send a covert operation to save them its as simple/complicated as that

[@frances840]

I pray for Israel. 🙏❤

[@missaddis8929]

I feel you im from Ethiopian,"Tigray "my people safer because of Abiy Ahmed 😢😢

[@HenJack-vl5cb]

This barbarie should have never happened.Why ruin again people lives from both sides??

[@plpcernwearth]

MY GOD. WE ALL SO TO SPEAK "SITTING ON PINS AND NEEDLES"WONDER HOW I IN THIS CASE I COULD OR WOULD DEAL WITH THE SITUATION? "DEAL" WHAT A COLD COLD WORD HEARD SO OFTEN SINCE SATURDAY. I DO NOT LIKE THE WORD. JUST TO LET THESE FAMILY MEMBERS KNOW. SO MANY PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD ARE FEELING DESPERATE IF THEY WERE OURS. GOD BLESS 🙌

[@sarabarela8705]

ANGELS OF GOD " EMBRACE " THEM WITH YOUR PROTECTION " 🙏 IN JESUS NAME 🙏 ✝️🕊

[@olgacharnolusky4561]

🙏❤

[@lisaeastes3104]

😢😢😢

[@jasonrinderle5630]

Wounder why the interviewer finds this amusing look at his facial expression

[@AshAshawaaq]

I stand with Palestine people but I hope you guys found your loved one safe! I feel your pain sorry

[@jessa9877]

The Hamas don't care

[@omegathornton1671]

🙏

[@katrinadejesus6881]

😔🙏🙏😔

[@christymearna883]

😓🙏💯

[@reginagermano2695]

❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏

[@bohemialite6371]

Hamas most of their men are young they don't have the maturity to think about if it was their own children that ability is not in their genes

[@The1TrueTeacher]

Americans with accents...???

[@judithscales1329]

Racist Americans with accents,,, RACIST AS DEVILS can be

[@rachelsmith577]

❤..... 🙏.....❤

[@SureYoureRight]

This is insane. I don’t go visit Detroit and act surprised if I get caught in between crossfire. They had no business in Israel

[@silvieb2024]

❤

[@Brian_yeah_that_brian_Strang]

Thank god for religion. Be safe people

[@kamyarhdi475]

🤲

[@יונתןגפני-ב8י]

🇮🇱🇮🇱❤️❤️

[@ypcomchic]

If I was born there I would leave and take all my family and never go back. You all knew this could happen. It’s been going on since the 80’s!!

[@rationalgazer]

Lol... it's been going on since the 1920s

[@quantumcomata105]

That's what you get for letting them rave techno party along the Gaza perimeter

[@luannshoop1339]

I thought the same thing! Why a rave festival so close?

[@rationalgazer]

Yeah, they got mad and planned for 2 years for the biggest terrorist attack in Israel's history, specifically because of a rave...

[@marybeckworth4132]

Praying for them all. 🙏🏻 🇮🇱+🇺🇸=Allies!

[@swizzleproxi4810]

Hamas don't care

[@niunka1]

you do everything you can to start WW III

[@ratnasurin]

11 October 2023 Hamas Terroris / Israel in Gaza 🇮🇱

[@jeanettehightower943]

Pray to Jesus Christ he’s the only one that can help you ! Pray to him. !! Believe in Jesus Christ amen hallelujah hallelujah amen and amen!!

[@mariaroy3367]

Where were all the interviews and concern over the decades of the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the atrocities against Palestinians? I like many, many others know the real truth about who is the aggressor here. I’m amazed that the media is still trying to twist the truth when the masses have access to real unbiased news on non-mainstream platforms.

[@judynelms4265]

Praying for Israel

[@JANK-qm9vg]

everything in our power??! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 everything you can?? you don't have any power whatsoever and there's nothing you can do about it.. 🙄

[@BOT_JERRY]

😂😂

[@karenneely6518]

#FreePalestine

[@mongolshonny6633]

They are probably pregnant by now ,haha

[@samtahamtan2247]

God bless you all sister. Have faith 🙏 Isreal will clean the earth from islam infestations....

[@jeromepoole3067]

dont worry billions will be sent.

[@imawesome1822]

Who cares

[@katrinadejesus6881]

😔🙏🙏🙏😔

[@silvieb2024]

❤

[@ImissYouSweetpea]

🙏🙏🙏