Watch: Emily Hand reunited with her father after 50 days in Gaza

Watch: Emily Hand reunited with her father after 50 days in Gaza

Emily Hand reunited with her father, Tom Hand. Picture: Amy Spiro/X

Emily Hand had her ninth birthday as a hostage in Gaza, the day before she was reunited with her father, who initially believed she had been killed in the devastating attack by Hamas gunmen on southern Israel last month.

Returned in the second group of hostages released by the Islamist movement under a Qatari-brokered deal with Israel, she appeared in good health in a photograph released with fellow hostage Hila Rotem, whose mother remains in Gaza.

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