“We’ll only know what she really went through as she opens up,” he told CNN. “She’s coming out slowly, little by little,” Hand said. It’s one of the details that his daughter is slowly sharing of what happened after she was kidnapped on October 7 and taken to Gaza, a place she now calls “the box.” Being pulled, dragged, pushed … under gunfire probably,” he said on Tuesday. Emily Hand had to run from house to house, forced to move by Hamas as Israeli forces attacked Gaza, her father Thomas Hand told CNN.
