When his nine-year-old daughter Emily first came back home after nearly two months in Hamas captivity, Thomas Hand didn’t let her out of his sight. At night, he would sit up watching her sleep. Whenever she frowned, he’d wake her, worried she was having a nightmare.
The rare times that Emily went out with her two grown-up siblings, he’d put an electronic tracker in her pocket, so that he could follow her on his phone. Each day, he marvelled that she was really there, thin and exhausted, with matted hair and lice, rescued from an ordeal that defies comprehension.




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The man believed by many to be the mastermind behind the 10/7 attack on Israel is Yahya Sinwar. Sinwar spent 22 years in an Israeli prison after he was convicted in 1989 of killing Palestinian informants and plotting the death of 





