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Nine-year-old Irish-Israeli hostage reunited with father after release

Source: PA Wire

A nine-year-old Irish-Israeli girl held hostage by Hamas has been reunited with her father.

Emily Hand was among a number of people to be freed by militants at the weekend in a deal which also saw Palestinians held in Israel released.

Video footage from RTE, Ireland’s national broadcaster, has shown her running into her father Thomas’s arms at a location in Israel.

She had been abducted while at.

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