Father of 9-year-old hostage tells CNN how young daughter survived Hamas captivity

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 29 November 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Over the last five days of the truce between Israel and Hamas, 81 hostages have been released, mostly women and children. One of those kids is 9-year-old Emily Hand. Her father, Thomas, was told that his daughter had died, and he told CNN days after the October 7 attack that her death was “a blessing” because it was the “best news of the possibilities” that he knew. A month later, the Israeli army told him it was “highly probable” Emily was alive and a hostage of Hamas. CNN Chief International Correspondent Clarissa Ward sat down with Thomas Hand after he was reunited with his daughter after more than 50 days. She tells Anderson Cooper he knew "her spirit" would help her survive. Plus, family and friends honored the life of former first lady Rosalynn Carter at a service in Atlanta. Jill Stuckey is a longtime friend of the Carters. She joins AC360 to remember her friend who she calls "remarkable." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tonight on 360 more hostages come out of Gaza with another group expected tomorrow and talks
0:06.8	underway to extend the truce and the flow of captives for as long as possible.
0:11.4	Also tonight, it was Cheney's new book and the revelations in it about the former president as could not quit him. And later, why Republican hopeful, Nicky Haley, is that much more hopeful
0:25.2	tonight, the surprising early big name and big money endorsement she just got and how it might change
0:30.3	her campaign. Good evening. Thanks for joining us.
0:34.0	We begin tonight with the hostages.
0:35.0	Hamas freed 12 more today under the terms of a truce which is now run five days, but expires
0:40.5	tomorrow after we expect a six group of hostages comes out.
0:44.4	This is new video taken from inside Gaza of the handover from the AFP News Agency.
0:49.6	You see crowds cheering, some shouting Allah Akbar God is great as the latest freed hostages
0:55.0	are paraded past them on the way to waiting Red Cross vehicles. It's a sharp
0:59.3	difference from last night's version which took place on a dark and empty street.
1:03.6	Two Thai nationals are in this latest group.
1:06.0	The other ten are Israelis.
1:07.6	In all, Hamas has now freed 81 hostages that they took so far.
1:11.8	But still, only a single American, four-year-old
1:14.3	Abigail-edon on Sunday. Two other American women expected to be released by
1:19.1	now are still being held. Israel, for its part, releasing 180 Palestinian prisoners.
1:24.0	CIA Director Bill Burns arrived today in Doha Qatar for meetings with officials there,
1:28.6	including a source tells us his Egyptian and Israeli counterparts.
1:33.0	Another source familiar with the trip tells CNN the discussions
1:36.2	are part of a push for a broader hostage deal expanding beyond the current women and
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