(VINnews) — Thomas Hand, the father of former nine-year old hostage Emily Hand, conducted an interview with Piers Morgan on Monday night.
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Several minutes into the live broadcast, Morgan received the tragic news that two Israeli hostages, Yossi Sharabi and Itai Svirsky, had died in captivity.
Thomas was visibly overwhelmed by emotion and moved to tears at hearing the unspeakable news.
During the same interview, Thomas launched an impassioned response to preposterous claims that Israel is an “apartheid state” carrying out a “genocide” in Gaza.
He said: “They don’t know a thing. We’re living it okay? We have been living it every day for 20 years – you have no idea. You have no right to even speak to me. Have you been to Israel, ever? Any one of you saying its disproportionate? Has any one of you come to see ‘apartheid’ in this country? It doesn’t exist, you idiots. It doesn’t exist.
“You have no idea. No idea. And you’re all chanting ‘from the river to the sea’ – you don’t know what river. You don’t know your history; you don’t know your geography.
“Educated university students, and they don’t even know what river and what sea borders Israel.”