WashPost:
Hamas took at least 64 captives into the Gaza Strip during fighting that began Saturday, at least 49 of whom appeared to be civilians, nine of them children, according to a review of visual evidence by The Post. Our latest investigation here:
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Neither nor Hamas has said exactly how many people are being held in , but the issue has wracked families in Israel and abroad and looms large in advance of a possible invasion. In total, we found visual evidence that fighters took at least 106 people captive.

WashPost:
Beside those who appeared to be taken to Gaza, 26 captives were seen being held in locations that could not be verified, and 16 were seen only in Israel. Hamas has said that it holds “tens” of people. Israel says that Palestinian fighters took between 100 and 150 people hostage

WashPost:
The videos show a mother and children driven off in a truck, foreign workers held in a subterranean room and young people taken from a desert rave attacked shortly after dawn on Saturday. In one case, fighters used a woman’s phone to livestream their abduction of her family.

WashPost:
The images show captives being taken from numerous locations across a swath of territory more than 20 miles wide, from the village of Nir Oz in the south to the main Erez border crossing in the north, reflecting the broad sweep of Hamas’s incursion across southern Israel.

WashPost:
In one widely publicized case, a video shows a man carrying a child down a road, surrounded by armed fighters.
Cen4infoRes geolocated it to the kibbutz of Nir Oz, which we confirmed. The Post spoke with the boy's older sister, who identified him as 12-year-old Erez Kalderon.

WashPost:
Erez was hiding in his family’s safe room along with his father, sister, cousin and grandmother during the attack, his sister said. They are all missing.

Another widely circulated video showed an elderly woman being driven by armed fighters through Gaza in a golf cart.

WashPost:
Adva Adar, who lives in Israel, told The Post that the woman was her 85-year-old grandmother, Yafa, who is ill and takes medicine, including for pain management.

“We don’t know how long she can stay without her medicine,” Adar said. [end of thread]

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