Brave Brit hostage Emily Damari says ‘I came back to life’ in first words since being freed from Hamas captivity in Gaza
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BRAVE British hostage Emily Damari has spoken out for the first time since she was released by Hamas. The 28-year-old said she is “the happiest person in the world” in the first Instagram post after 15 months in captivity. She wrote: "I'm loving, loving, loving. Thanks be to G-d. Thanks to my family, to Oreli, to the best friends I have in this world. I have returned to life, my loved ones.
![[Emily Damari, an Israeli hostage, celebrating her release after a prisoner exchange.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2025-ceasefire-hostage-prisoner-exchange-965016292.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
"I have managed to see just a tiny bit of everything, and you have shattered my heart from emotion. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I am the happiest person in the world, just to be.". At the end of her post she signed with a "rock on " emoji symbolising her two missing fingers she lost the day she was shot in the hand by Hamas.
![[A woman embraces her mother after being released from captivity.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/handout-photo-issued-israeli-government-965168547.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Spurs fan Emily was among the first three captives to be freed from a list of 33 due for release over six weeks. Dramatic footage showed her being surrounded by masked gun-wielding terrorists as she got out of the van alongside Israeli captives Romi Gonen, 24, and Doron Steinbrecher, 31,.
![[Hostage release during ceasefire.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/icrc-part-ceasefire-hostages-prisoners-965132591.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
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