YOSEPH HADDAD -- Uri, who had already managed to escape from the Nova party on the morning of October 7th, received a phone call and returned to the terrorist-infested area to save other partygoers, knowing that he was not sure he would return alive.
He rescued the brothers Itay and Maya Regev and their friend Omar Shem Tov in his car until they were ambushed and captured by terrorists.
Itay and Maya were released in the previous deal, and Omar recently returned alive.
Uri himself was only kidnapped after a struggle with the terrorists, when he punched the terrorist who captured him, causing him to fracture his skull and go blind!
Elia Cohen, who returned from captivity, told how the terrorists reached the tunnels and searched for the Israeli hostage who had blinded the Nuhkba terrorist.
Even on the way to Gaza when he was already kidnapped, he continued to fight the terrorists without fear, and even in the first days of captivity he fought with the terrorists and did everything to ensure that they took care of Hirsch who was with him and was bleeding as a result of blood loss in the area of his severed hand.
Uri was not afraid of the terrorists and did not agree to give them the feeling that he was submissive and weaker than them.
He stood his ground and was a source of strength for the hostages who were with him.
Uri was finally murdered with five other hostages in the tunnels in a shocking execution when the terrorists realized that the IDF was close to them.