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 the Israel Defence Forces showed her running into her father Thomas’s arms, and fellow captive Hila Rotem Shoshani, 13, reuniting with her uncle.
The girls had been abducted while at a sleepover in Kibbutz Be’eri during the Hamas attack on October 7. Hila’s mother, Raya Rotem, 54, is still being held in Gaza.
Thomas Hand, originally from Dun Laoghaire in Dublin, thanked all the people who have supported his family
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