Israeli Teen Hopes Her Cousins Will Be Launched Quickly by Hamas

, 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 in addition, you see him and he’s — he’s nonetheless the identical individual. You may acknowledge him, however his eyes are — they appear to be he went by so many issues so rapidly. Simply a lot much less life in them. You may inform the distinction between the blissful, joking, laughing boy he was, and who he’s now. For a bit bit there, it felt like each day he would come again and be launched, and at the least 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 someone, particularly at that age. I can’t consider something apart from getting the hostages again.