Natalie Hand was on a trip to Australia when she heard the devastating news that terrorists had infiltrated her hometown, Kibbutz Bari, where her father Thomas and her mother, Thomas' ex-wife, Narkis (who was murdered in the massacre by Hamas terrorists), as well as her sister (half-hearted, from her father) Emily, who was raised by Narcissus after Emily's mother died, among other things.
For the first few hours, Natalie was still on the phone with her mother, father and sister, and made video calls with them, but then contact was cut off and the family had no idea what had happened to 9-year-old Emily.
On the verge of tears: Watch Emily Hand's emotional reunion with her sister
Yesterday, on the night between Saturday and Sunday, Emily, whose family initially thought she had been murdered, returned home after 50 days in Hamas captivity. Her father, Thomas, who immigrated to Israel from Ireland, had already come to terms with her death and even preferred that it be done in order to ease the pain and uncertainty, but after learning that Emily was alive and abducted in the Gaza Strip, he worked for her release in every possible way alongside her sister Natalie, between whom there was a gap of about 17 years.
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