Middle East

Israeli Hostage Marks Her Ninth Birthday in Hamas Captivity

‘SHE WON’T EVEN KNOW’

Beyoncé fan Emily Hand turns nine Friday. “There’ll be no birthday party, no birthday cake, no friends,” said her dad.

Thomas Hand, the father of Irish-Israeli Emily Hand, 9, who was confirmed as one of the hostages held in the Gaza Strip, looks at a poster of Emily in his hotel room where he was evacuated to, near the Dead Sea in Israel, November 10, 2023.
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