Israeli Teen Hopes Her Cousins Will Be Launched Quickly by Hamas

You already know, they launched a video of him speaking and we thought he was going to be launched. And it simply provides you a way of false hope. But additionally, you see him and he’s — he’s nonetheless the identical individual. You possibly can acknowledge him, however his eyes are — they seem like he went by way of so many issues so shortly. Simply a lot much less life in them. You possibly can inform the distinction between the completely happy, joking, laughing boy he was, and who he’s now. For just a little bit there, it felt like each day he would come again and be launched, and not less than he can be right here, even when all of the others aren’t. After which we realized that wasn’t going to occur within the subsequent few days. And that led to a different simply wave of agony. Individuals I knew, I noticed at each household gathering and at college, and so they’re simply gone. I imply, it’s not one thing that ought to ever occur to anyone, particularly at that age. I can’t consider something aside from getting the hostages again.