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 person. You can acknowledge him, however his eyes are — they appear to be he went via so many issues so rapidly. Just a lot much less life in them. You can inform the distinction between the joyful, joking, laughing boy he was, and who he’s now. For a little bit bit there, it felt like on daily basis 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 someone, particularly at that age. I can’t consider something aside from getting the hostages again.