Emily Damari is a 27 year old nursery teacher taken hostage on October 7 by Hamas terrorists who attacked Kibbutz Kfar Aza. She turned 28 in captivity. Her last message was around 10 a.m. on October 7, when she wrote that terrorists were in her neighborhood and shooting around her apartment.

Bar Kislev, a friend from the same neighborhood who survived that black Shabbat said he saw Emily’s car being driven at around 11 a.m. in their neighborhood. He watched the car, which was being driven by a terrorist, stop in front of his house, and heard arguments in Arabic before the car was reversed and driven quickly in the direction of Gaza. He said he believed that was the moment when Damari and the
Berman twins, Gali and Ziv, were abducted.

Emily was seen by released hostage Dafna Elyakim in Hamas’s underground tunnels along with Liri Albag, Naama Levy, Romy Gonen, and Agam Berger. Out of 37 residents of Kibbutz Kfar Aza’s “young generation” neighborhood, 11 people were murdered and seven were kidnapped and taken to the Strip.

Emily is a British-Israeli dual citizen. Her mother is originally from Kent.

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