British hostage’s mom writes letter to daughter held in Gaza: ‘Please keep strong, be your beautiful self that I love to the moon and back’

The mother of Emily Damari, a UK-Israeli hostage held by terrorists in Gaza for almost a year has given British Prime Minister Keir Starmer a note for her daughter and asked him to try and get it to her.

“It is breaking my heart a little more, day by day,” Mandy Damari tells the Daily Mail. “Soon there will be nothing left of my heart – or Emily.”

Damari says that most of the British public don’t know that there is a UK citizen held hostage, and has asked Starmer to mention her 28-year-old daughter whenever he talks about the hostages.

The Daily Mail publishes the note that Mandy wrote to her daughter:

Dear Emily,

I hope this note gets to you when you are alive and home with me, abba and all your family. And you’ll see that we are all alive.

If it gets to you in Gaza know that we all love you and miss you and are sick with worry about what is happening to you every day and we are praying and meeting whoever we can to get you back home.

Please keep strong, keep praying and just be your beautiful self that I love to the moon and back. You will come home. And I promise that I’ll never complain again about your perfume sticking to me when you’re home.

Love you so much

Your Mum (who is always right!)