Foreign Minister Eli Cohen chides Ireland’s prime minister for saying that an Israeli-Irish child hostage was “found” after she was “lost,” after she was released yesterday by Hamas, 50 days into her captivity.
In a post on X directed at Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, Cohen writes: “It seems you have lost your moral compass and need a reality check!”
Emily Hand, 9, was originally presumed dead after Hamas attacked Kibbutz Be’eri as part of its October 7 rampage against Israel’s southern communities and a large outdoor music festival, killing some 1,200 people, the majority civilians.
Hand was later confirmed to be among the 240 hostages taken that day to the Gaza Strip.
“Emily Hand was not ‘lost,’ she was kidnapped by a terror organization worse than ISIS that murdered her stepmother,” Cohen continues.
“Emily and more than 30 other Israeli children were taken hostage by Hamas, and you are trying to legitimize and normalize terror. Shame on you!” he adds.
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