{"id":143793,"date":"2023-11-16T14:34:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T14:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theprojectsworld.com\/?p=143793"},"modified":"2023-11-16T14:34:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T14:34:41","slug":"father-of-hamas-hostage-emily-hand-8-fears-she-will-be-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprojectsworld.com\/world-news\/father-of-hamas-hostage-emily-hand-8-fears-she-will-be-broken\/","title":{"rendered":"Father of Hamas hostage Emily Hand, 8, fears she will be &apos;broken&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Father of Hamas hostage Emily Hand, 8, breaks down admitting it is &#8216;too painful&#8217; to imagine the horrors she is experiencing in Gaza after once welcoming news she was killed because being kidnapped would be &#8216;worse than death&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Thomas Hand\u00a0rejoiced when told daughter Emily, 8, was killed rather than kidnapped in the Hamas attack, before discovering she is a hostage in Gaza<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Irish-born father fears his daughter will be &#8216;mentally and physically and emotionally broken&#8217; in the terrorist&#8217;s tunnels<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00a0But he promises to &#8216;give her the world&#8217; if the little girl returns alive\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The father of Hamas hostage Emily Hand wept as he voiced fears his eight-year-old will be &#8216;broken&#8217; in the tunnels of Gaza by conditions he compared to the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>Emily was snatched from her bed at the Kibbutz Be&#8217;eri while visiting a friend for a sleepover when thousands of armed terrorists swarmed across the nearby Gaza border on October 7.<\/p>\n<p>Her father Thomas Hand rejoiced when he was initially told she was among the 1,400 killed in the attack, given the horrors awaiting the 240 hostages dragged back to Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>And he fought back tears ahead of her ninth birthday on Friday as he admitted he still cannot imagine what she is going through, but he insisted he &#8216;can&#8217;t let my feelings interfere with getting her back&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You know, she is not going to come back, none of them are going to come back the way they went in,&#8217; he told CNN\u00a0today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I don&#8217;t want to think of what conditions she&#8217;s in. Could be like the cattle, train carts in the Second World War.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/15\/18\/77840193-12753293-image-a-25_1700071281668.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Thomas Hand wept as he imagined the conditions his eight-year-old daughter Emily is being held in the tunnels under Gaza after being kidnapped by Hamas on October 7<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/15\/18\/77840147-12753293-image-a-26_1700071304097.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Emily, who turns nine on Friday, found herself among 240 Hamas hostages after she was snatched from her bed at the Kibbutz Be&#8217;eri while visiting a friend for a sleepover\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/15\/18\/77840139-12753293-image-a-27_1700071310568.jpg\" height=\"452\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Hamas fighters have spent decades digging tunnels under the Gaza enclave where the hostages are thought to be held in unknown conditions\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They were just all in a cattle car and pee and poo where you stood.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>But he promised to &#8216;give her the world&#8217; in a bid to repair the damage if she returns as backchannel negotiations over the hostages&#8217; fate take place in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They are going to be mentally and physically and emotionally broken, and that&#8217;s going to take a lot of fixing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;m not going to send her to school for at least a year. We&#8217;re going to give her the world. Just happy times. And fix her.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He said a trip to Disney World was among his plans as he campaigns to secure her release.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I don&#8217;t watch the news. I haven&#8217;t got time for it. It&#8217;s just full on get it Emily back,&#8217; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Last week the Irish-born dad reflected on how he felt when Israeli authorities told him his &#8216;exceptional&#8217; daughter was among the thousands caught up in the Hamas attack.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They said &#8216;We found Emily. She&#8217;s dead&#8217;, and I just went &#8216;Yes!&#8217; I went &#8216;yes&#8217;, and I smiled, because that is the best news of the possibilities that I knew.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/15\/18\/77840143-12753293-image-a-29_1700071345844.jpg\" height=\"711\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;She was a little angel and she actually looked like an angel,&#8217; Emily&#8217;s father told the Irish Times, &#8216;she was very, very sociable and she loved music&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/15\/18\/77840241-12753293-Dublin_born_Thomas_Hand_with_his_daughters_Emily_and_Natali-m-5_1700074143550.jpg\" height=\"389\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Dublin-born Thomas Hand with his daughters Emily and Natali\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/15\/18\/77840255-12753293-_I_ll_spend_all_my_money_every_penny_I_ve_got_to_give_her_fun_to-a-4_1700072920966.jpg\" height=\"575\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;ll spend all my money, every penny I&#8217;ve got to give her fun to make up for everything that she&#8217;s lost and everything she&#8217;s going through,&#8217; he told one newspaper<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/15\/18\/77840215-12753293-image-a-32_1700071394566.jpg\" height=\"323\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The Israeli\u00a0401st Brigade Combat Team claims to have uncovered this entrance to a Hamas tunnel near the Rantisi hospital in Gaza<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/15\/18\/77840163-12753293-image-a-33_1700071421816.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I actually keep her in a special place, and I don&#8217;t want to imagine what she&#8217;s going through,&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They&#8217;d have no food. They&#8217;d have no water. She&#8217;d be in a dark room filled with Christ knows how many people, and terrified every minute, hour, day, and possible years to come.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;So death was a blessing. An absolute blessing.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Today he said he cannot cope with the realization that his little girl is being held hostage at the heart of Hamas&#8217;s underground terror network as the battle rages around her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I can&#8217;t. I actually keep her in a special place, and I don&#8217;t want to imagine what she&#8217;s going through,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Every day, 38 days now. I can&#8217;t think about it. It would be too painful.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;She is down in the tunnels of Gaza with Hamas. I don&#8217;t want to think of what conditions she&#8217;s in. How she is being treated. How she is being fed. How she is &#8212; if she has been given water. Just has she got a toothbrush?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=_zbjTW0J1LQ%3Frel%3D0<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden raised hopes on Tuesday that a deal could be struck between Israel and Hamas to free the hostages in exchange for a pause in the Israeli attack on Gaza which has claimed over 11,000 Palestinian lives.<\/p>\n<p>And Hamas&#8217;s military wing, the Qassam Brigades, said in a statement last night that negotiations were focusing on the possible release of 70 women and children in exchange for a five-day pause in the fighting, as backchannel talks continue in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>But Hand said he had &#8216;very, very little&#8217; information on his daughter or what chances there are for her release.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I know for a fact that she&#8217;s not dead,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You know for a fact that she was led away by Hamas terrorists. There are eyewitness accounts of it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Someone saw her being led away. Her and her friend and her friend&#8217;s mother.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You know, America has a lot of influence all over the world. If he (Biden) says that, obviously, he knows more than I do, and every little bit of information gives us hope that we can get Emily and at least the children and babies out of Gaza.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We have been working non-stop to put pressure on all the governments all over the world to do their best to get, particularly my little Emily, back home,&#8217; Hand said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;She is an Irish citizen, so we put a lot of pressure on the Irish government.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We are doing everything that we possibly can to get her home, and all the hostages. At least the children.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They could start off with the babies and the children.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They&#8217;ve got babies being kidnapped over there.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He said the support he has received from well-wishers across the world has been &#8216;tremendous&#8217; and &#8216;we just keep moving forward&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Yeah, the campaign is viral, I suppose you&#8217;d called it, and it&#8217;s been great, the support that we&#8217;re being given,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I don&#8217;t have time to look at the interviews. I don&#8217;t watch the news. I haven&#8217;t got time for it. 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