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  • Hagels_Bagels
    12·
    7 months ago

    From Hamas Online Telegram:

    A letter written by an Israeli captive to Al-Qassam Brigades hours before leaving the Gaza Strip…!

    To the generals who have accompanied me in recent weeks, it seems we will part ways tomorrow, but I thank you from the bottom of my heart for the extraordinary humanity shown towards my daughter, Emilia. You were like parents to her, letting her go into your rooms whenever she wanted. She’s admitted that she feels like all of you are her friends, and not just friends, but truly beloved and good people.

    Thank you, thank you, thank you for the many hours you spent as caregivers. Thank you for being patient with her and showering her with sweets, fruits, and everything available even when you didn’t have it.

    Children should not be held in captivity, but thanks to you and other kind people we met along the way, my daughter felt like a queen in Gaza… In general, she says she felt as though she was the center of the world. She hasn’t met anyone on our long journey, from the rank and file to the leadership, who didn’t treat her with gentleness, affection, and love.

    I will forever be a prisoner of gratitude because she did not leave here with a lifelong psychological trauma. I will remember your kind behavior, granted here despite the difficult situation you were dealing with yourselves and the severe losses you suffered here in Gaza. I wish in this world we could truly be good friends.

    I wish you all health and well-being… Health and love to you and your families’ children. Many thanks.

    Danyal and Emilia

    Here is the reaction of Emily Hand’s father after being lied to by the IDF about her dead body being found on Oct 12.

    "[Israeli authorities] said, “We found Emily. She’s dead,” and I just went “Yes!” I went “yes”, and I smiled, because that is the best news of the possibilities that I knew.

    ''She was either dead, or in Gaza. And if you know anything about what they do to people in Gaza, that is worse than death,"

    "They’d have no food. They’d have no water. She’d be in a dark room filled with Christ knows how many people.

    “And terrified every minute, hour, day, and possible years to come. So death was a blessing. An absolute blessing.”

    So anyway that’s fucked up.

    EDIT: These are different children.

      • Hagels_Bagels
        8·
        7 months ago

        Ok, so I got confused. These are in reference to two different child hostages, one named Emily (9), and another named Emilia (5).

        I assume that the signoff Danyal is an alternate translation of Danielle [Aloni], the mother, who was released with Emilia Aloni on Friday.

        Emily Hand was released on Saturday. Her father Thomas Hand wasn’t a hostage hence why he was able to say he was happy his 9 y/o daughter was dead. Now he is overjoyed that she’s been returned to Israel instead of shot on Oct 7, and she is ‘better than expected’.

        The Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar described Emily’s release as an “enormous joy and relief”, adding that “an innocent child who was lost has now been found and returned”.

        The Israeli foreign minister criticised these remarks, posting on social media: “Emily Hand was not “lost”, she was kidnapped by a terror organization worse than ISIS that murdered her stepmother”.

        Mr Varadkar defended his comments, saying: “The vast majority of people will know what I meant.”

        They can’t even let world leaders express happiness towards the safety of the hostages without condemning Hamas.