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After captivity, Israeli-Irish girl won’t say ‘Gaza’ or ‘blood’

After captivity, Israeli-Irish girl won’t say ‘Gaza’ or ‘blood’

MORE than two months after she was freed from Gaza, Emily Hand no longer speaks in terrified whispers. But the Israeli-Irish girl who was among the youngest Hamas hostages still refuses to name her captors or the Palestinian enclave where she was held. At the temporary home she shares with her father Tom, a whiteboard lays out their lexicon for the ordeal: Foods she does not like stand in for memories the nine-year-old does not want. The Gaza Strip is "the box". Terrorists are "olives". An abducted person is "cheese", a murdered person is "cottage cheese". Blood is "watermelon". "Sometimes…
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