An Irish father living in Israel said he was relieved when he heard the news of his 8-year-old daughter’s death at the hands of Hamas, insisting it was a “blessing” compared to the alternative of her being held captive and They would torture her savagely. the terrorists.
Thomas Hand recounted the moment he learned the news of his daughter Emily’s death in an interview on CNN on Wednesday.
“They just said, ‘We found Emily, she’s dead,’ and I said, ‘Yes,'” he said.
“I said ‘Yes’ and smiled because that is the best news of the possibilities I knew. The best possibility I hoped for,” she said.
Hand added that her daughter’s death was better than any other situation that could have happened.
“She was either dead or in Gaza, and if you know anything about what they do to people in Gaza, that’s worse than death, that’s worse than death,” the grieving father said. “The way they treat you, they don’t have food, they don’t have water.”
“I would be in a dark room with God who knows how many people and terrified every minute, hour, day and possible years to come,” she screamed. “So death was a blessing, an absolute blessing.”
Thomas Hand was forced to admit he was relieved when he learned his daughter had been killed by Hamas terrorists after he feared she was being held captive. CNN Hand said his daughter, Emily, was at a sleepover with a friend on Friday night and Saturday. Tom Hand via CNN
Hand said her daughter was sleeping with a friend Friday night and into Saturday, when terrorists sneaked into Kibbutz Be’eri and massacred more than 100 people.
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He said he didn’t worry when the sirens sounded, “until I heard the gunshots. And it was too late.”
Hand said she was unable to contact her daughter, her friend or her friend’s mother.
Fearing for his life, he fled.
Terrorists infiltrated Kibbutz Be’eri on Saturday morning and massacred more than 100 people.via REUTERS
“I had to think about Emily,” Hand said. “She already lost her mother, I couldn’t risk her losing her father too.”
Hand had come to Be’eri 30 years ago as a volunteer and planned to stay only a few months, but he never left.
After his wife, Emily’s mother, died of cancer a few years ago, he and Emily lived alone.
She described her daughter as the tallest in her class and a talented dancer and singer.
The kibbutz on the Gaza border was one of the first sites invaded by Hamas terrorists during Saturday’s dawn attack.
“If I had known… maybe I could have run, caught her, caught her friend, caught the mother and brought them back to my house,” he said.
“But by the time I realized what was happening, it was too late.”
The kibbutz on the Gaza border was one of the first sites invaded by Hamas terrorists during Saturday’s dawn attack.
Survivors told how armed terrorists went door to door to kill residents and burned any houses they could not enter.
Survivors told how armed terrorists went door to door to kill residents and burned houses they could not enter.
But it was just one of many kibbutzim attacked by Hamas in recent days, including Kfar Aza, where terrorists beheaded children and babies.
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