When the massacre happened on October 7, Thomas Hand was told or believed that his daughter Emily had been killed. he even expressed publicly then that he was grateful she had been murdered rather than having to undergo the horrors of having been taken captive by Hamas. Now with the release of a group of captives yesterday, Hand discovered that his daughter Emily is actually alive and was taken hostage. He already mourned for her and now he gets her back.

NOTE: I apologize if Mr Hand is Jewish. I saw in an article about the situation that he is Irish Catholic. It did not mention conversion, so my assumption is that he never converted. His kids are Jewish because both his wives are/were Jewish and Israeli. His first wife, the mother of his older children, having divorced, and his second wife, mother of Emily, having died of cancer.