Tom Hand faces agonising wait for daughter's release from Gaza

Thomas Hand has been told that his daughter Emily was taken by Hamas. She was originally feared dead after the Hamas assault on Kibbutz Be’eri in Israel on October 7. Picture: CNN
On Sunday evening, it emerged that the 8-year-old daughter of Irish citizen Tom Hand was believed to be alive and held hostage in Gaza.
The detail came almost a month after Dublin-born Tom was told she had been killed during Hamas’s bloody attack on Kibbutz Be’eri where the father and daughter lived.