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Israeli learns grandmother murdered from photo Hamas posts on Facebook

“My grandmother. My whole world. The light of my life,” wrote Mor Bayder.

Kibbutz Nir Oz. Source: Screenshot.
Kibbutz Nir Oz. Source: Screenshot.
Kibbutz Nir Oz. Source: Screenshot.
Kibbutz Nir Oz. Source: Screenshot.

At 7 a.m. on Saturday, Mor Bayder saw a horrifying photo on her grandmother’s Facebook page.

A Hamas terrorist had broken into her grandmother’s house in kibbutz Nir Oz, murdered her, and then took a picture on her phone and uploaded it to her Facebook page.

“This is how we found out,” Bayder wrote. “My grandmother. My whole world. The light of my life.”

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