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Mediators hope the current model of a daily cease-fire with the release of Israeli captives in exchange for freeing Palestinian prisoners would create the conditions for longer-term discussions.
Thomas Hand told CNN that when he asked his daughter how long she had been held for, she said “a year”.
Her father has revealed how the nine-year-old was led through gunfire in her pyjamas.
Israel said on Tuesday it had received 12 more hostages from the Gaza Strip amid negotiations for a broader hostage-prisoner deal and warnings from the United States that, should hostilities resume, Israel should fight more surgically and avoid further mass displacement of Palestinians.
Emily Hand, the nine-year-old girl released after Hamas held her hostage for 50 days, will now only talk in whispers having been ordered to stay silent by her captors, her father told British tabloid The Sun in an interview published on Wednesday."She's got used to talking like that for the past 50 days and now I guess she can't stop," he said, adding he will now do "whatever it takes" to aid her recovery Irish-Israeli citizen Emily was sleeping over at a friend's house on the Beeri kibbutz when