AN emotionally charged birthday party was held for Hamas hostage Emily Hand, who turned nine while held captive in Gaza.
Cakes were laid out on a table on what should have been one of the happiest days of the Irish-Israeli child’s life.
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Instead, 50 members of the Israeli community gathered at a solemn vigil in London to celebrate the schoolgirl’s birthday in her absence.
There were bright-coloured balloons but party food sat uneaten on the empty seats in a powerful appeal for the hostages to be freed.
Children’s birthday music played through speakers, accompanied with chilling audio from Hamas’s October 7 terror operation — of militants shouting in Arabic and the sound of gunfire and kids screaming.
Forty plates sat on the table on a street near Trafalgar Square — each…
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