Montreal man desperate for news about cousin who went missing after Israel attacks
CTV
A Canadian family is worried about the safety of their relative, Tiferet Lapidot, who they believe was likely taken hostage during the Hamas attacks at a music festival in Israel last weekend.
A Canadian family is worried about the safety of their relative, Tiferet Lapidot, who they believe was likely taken hostage during the Hamas attacks at a music festival in Israel last weekend.
Lapidot was among the thousands of young people who were attending Tribe of Nova, an outdoor electronic music festival, in southern Israel, when Hamas militants broke through a border fence and opened fire on festivalgoers. Some were taken hostage.
Her cousin, Oran Zlotnik, who lives in Montreal, said her family is growing more desperate as each day passes without news about her whereabouts.
"She phoned her mom, saying, 'I'm hiding in a bush. There are shootings around me. I'm trying to save myself,' and then the conversation was cut off," Zlotnik told CTV News.
The following day, on Sunday, her phone was geo-located across the border in Gaza, after the family reached out to the Israeli government for assistance locating her, he said.
"The thing we're hoping for is that she's kidnapped," he said, adding that her body was not among the roughly 250 bodies that were recovered from the festival site in the aftermath of the attack by Hamas, a group declared as a terrorist organization by the Canadian government.
