Dad living in Israel recounts relief at learning daughter died: Being kidnapped by Hamas is ‘worse than death’
By Melissa Koenig and
Nicholas McEntyre
Published Oct. 12, 2023, 8:11 a.m. ET
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 savagely tortured by the terrorists.
Thomas Hand recounted the moment that 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 went, ‘Yes,'” he said.
“I went ‘Yes,’ and smiled because that is the best news of the possibilities that I knew. The best possibility that I was hoping for,” he said.
Hand added that his 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 is worse than death, that is worse than death,” the grieving father said. “The way they treat you, they have no food, they have no water.”
“She’d be in a dark room with Christ who knows how many people and terrified every minute, hour, day and possible years to come,” he cried out. “So death was a blessing, an absolute blessing.”
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