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Emily Hand. Credit: Courtesy of the Hand family.
Freed 10-year-old hostage to ChatGPT: ‘I miss the people we lost’
Emily Hand launched an education conference in Tel Aviv, expressing her sadness to the world’s most popular AI tool.
JNS Staff
Feb. 18, 2025
Emily Hand. Credit: Courtesy of the Hand family.
Freed child captive has moments of joy, as family yearns for normalcy
Emily Hand, 9, seems to have gone back to her joyful self, but she sometimes feels very afraid.
Amelie Botbol
Nov. 8, 2024
Emily Hand, 8, with her father, Thomas Hand, an Irish immigrant to Israel, in Ramat Gan after being freed from nearly two months of captivity in the Gaza Strip by Hamas, Nov. 25, 2023. Credit: IDF.
WATCH: Former captive Emily Hand, 9, comforts her father after new hostage video emerges
When asked by British television host Piers Morgan to react to a new Hamas video showing hostages who were with his daughter in Hamas captivity, Thomas Hand became emotional.
Jan. 16, 2024
Tom Hand and his daughter Emily, who was kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023. Courtesy of Tom Hand.
Irish-Israeli Emily Hand turns 9 in Hamas custody
“We must not cooperate with terrorism. The whole world should demand that Emily and everyone else be brought home now,” said Emily's father.
Amelie Botbol
Nov. 19, 2023