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Freed hostage Emily Damari’s wounded hand swiftly becomes a symbol of Israeli defiance.

In some of the first pictures the family cleared for publication after her release, Emily, a dual Israeli-British citizen, was seen waving her bandaged left hand in a phone call to her relatives, in an image widely seen as emblemizing her courage and resilience.

The gunmen who burst into her home at Kibbutz Kfar Aza on October 7, 2023, shot her dog, she reportedly told her family and friends in her first conversations with them on Sunday evening, and she was hit, too, as she tried to comfort her dying pet.

In an Instagram post on Monday, the released hostage, 28, wrote that the outpouring of love and support had made her “heart burst with excitement.”