The fate of Emily Hand, the eight-year-old girl who was at Kibbutz Be’eri, the site of the massacre, on October 7, the day of the Hamas attack on Israel, is mysterious. Emily was presumed dead in the attack, but may instead still be alive. According to the family’s statement five days ago, the little girl is being held hostage in Gaza. As Channel 12 reports.
In fact, Natalie, Emily’s sister, went on TV on Channel 12 and tried to address her little sister directly while looking into the camera: “I want to tell you that we are doing everything we can to get you home. “We know you are being held hostage. We love you so much and miss you.
The story of Emily, who died at the age of eight, went around the world after the kibbutzim murders. At that time, Emily’s father appeared on television and tearfully recounted his daughter’s death in an interview with an American broadcaster: “It would have been better for her to die,” he said, “as a prisoner in Gaza it would have been better.” Worse been.
On the day of the Hamas attack, the little girl was at a friend’s house on the kibbutz and it appears that this friend and her mother are also prisoners.
Emily has dual citizenship, both Israeli and Irish. “The Irish authorities have promised to do everything they can to help us,” Natalie said on television.