Nine-year-old Irish-Israeli hostage reunited with father after release
by Rebecca Black
Nov 26, 2023
3 minutes
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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 a sleepover in Kibbutz
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