British-Israeli ‘hopeful’ he will be reunited with sister’s family taken hostage by Hamas

Yonat Or, 50, was killed during the October 7 attack but her husband and two of her children are missing

A British-Israeli lawyer is holding out hope of being reunited with family members held hostage by Hamas after being told the gunmen had murdered his sister.

Ahal Besorai said his sister Yonat Or, 50, her husband, Dror, 50, and two of their three children, who are 15 and 13, were spotted being dragged out of the safe room of their burning home in Be'eri kibbutz by Hamas militants on 7 October.

The 60-year-old spent hours trawling through Hamas propaganda videos online in the hope of spotting his family alive after Yonat's phone was traced to Gaza.

But Besorai, who lived in London for 25 years, said he was told on Friday that his sister's body had been identified among the 120 people murdered in the kibbutz. The rest of the family remains missing.

It's really devastating. There are no words to say about how such a beautiful person can be murdered so viciously by these terrorists," he said.

As he grieves for his sister, Besorai remains hopeful of being reunited with his brother-in-law, his nephew, Noam, and niece, Alma. We always have hope. This is how we are wired. As long as they're alive, as long as we don't have a body, we are hopeful," he said.