2023-11-26 13:30:00
“This is a day of enormous joy and relief for Emily Hand and her family. An innocent girl who was lost has now been found and returned, we breathe with great relief,” wrote the Prime Minister of Ireland, Leo Varadkar, on the social network X.
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What the Irishman forgot in his message is that 9-year-old Emily (Irish-Israeli) was not “lost”, she was kidnapped for 50 days by the Hamas terrorist group in the Gaza Strip.
Varadkar’s unusual message, published minutes following the identities of the Israeli hostages released last night were known, became an international scandal.
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It is that the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel, Eli Cohen, put into words what the users of the same social network where the Irishman had expressed himself began to shout: “Mr. Prime Minister, it seems that you have lost your moral compass and need a review of reality. “Emily Hand was not ‘missing,’ she was kidnapped by a terrorist organization worse than the Islamic State that murdered her stepmother.”
Cohen also accused Varadkar of “legitimizing and normalizing terrorism,” and snapped: “Shame on you!”
A long-awaited hug is expected from the Irish-Israeli girl Emily Hand, who was kidnapped by Hamas during the October 7 attack on Israel, with her father Thomas Hand (Archyde.com) Emily Hand was kidnapped in the Gaza Strip for 50 days following the hamas terrorists will murder his stepmother
The Israeli foreign minister did not stop with the virtual protest, but also decided to call the Irish ambassador in Israel to express his discomfort. “Following the scandalous words of the Prime Minister of Ireland regarding the release of Emily Hand, who was kidnapped in Gaza by the terrorist organization Hamas, I summoned the Irish ambassador to Israel for a reprimand,” Cohen announced via X.
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Israeli government spokesman Eylon Levy was merciless with Varadkar: “This is how to describe a girl who disappeared during a walk in a forest and was later discovered by a hiker friend. Not a girl brutally kidnapped by death squads who brutally massacred her neighbors.”
“But this explains the extent of Ireland’s contribution: prayers,” he added.
Another who reacted fairly harshly is the Irish MMA fighter Conor McGregor. “She was kidnapped by an evil terrorist organization. What is up with you and your government and your paid media affiliates constantly downplaying/trying to suppress the horrible acts that happen to children. You are a shame. The day following a stabbing of children in Ireland, NO PAPER PUBLISHED IT ON THE COVER. We will not forget it,” the athlete accused.
Emily was kidnapped during the bloody attack on October 7 in Israel, when she was at her home in Kibbutz Beeri, a collective community a few kilometers from Gaza, where dozens of people were murdered and regarding 80 kidnapped.
Hand’s stepmother was killed in the attack, while the girl was dragged to Gaza along with a friend she was with.
Yesterday she was finally released with 16 other hostages, 12 Israelis, all women and minors, and four Thais who were employees in agricultural communities near Gaza.
Hamas Releases Images of the Release of the Second Group of Hostages
Hamas terrorists on Saturday freed 17 hostages, including 13 Israelis, from captivity in the Gaza Strip, while Israel freed 39 Palestinian prisoners in the final stage of a four-day ceasefire.
The exchange was delayed several hours following Hamas accused Israel of violating the agreement. The delay highlighted the fragility of the ceasefire, which has halted a war that has shocked and shaken Israel, caused widespread destruction in the Gaza Strip and threatened to spark wider clashes across the region.
Among those released, this time, a greater number of children were included. They are Mia Regev (21), Noam (17) and Alma (13) Or, Hila Rotem-Shoshani (13), Emily Hand (9), Shiri (53) and Noga (18) Weiss, Sharon (52) and Noam (12) Avigdoris, Shoshan Haran (67), and Adi (38), Naveh (8) and Yahel (3) Shohams.
These are the 13 Israelis freed in the second exchange with the Hamas terrorist group
The war broke out on October 7, when Hamas terrorists in Gaza stormed across the border into southern Israel, killing at least 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapping another 240, including women, children and seniors. Israel immediately declared war and carried out weeks of airstrikes and a ground offensive that have left more than 13,300 Palestinians dead, according to health authorities in the Hamas-controlled territory.
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