Israeli Teen Hopes Her Cousins Will Be Released Soon by Hamas

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