Gaza man reunited with family after being told in Israeli jail they were dead

By Pesha Magid

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (Reuters) -Shadi Abu Sido’s world shattered in Israeli detention when guards told him his wife and two children had been killed.

“I got hysterical,” the Gaza Palestinian photographer said.

It wasn’t until his release on Monday, part of the U.S.-mediated ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel that halted two years of war, that he discovered his loved ones were alive.

His wife, Hanaa Bahlul, raced down the hallway of his family’s house in Khan Younis and leapt into his arms. He spun her in the air as they clung to each other. Abu Sido kissed his children’s cheeks again and again, murmuring “my love” as he held the daughter and son he thought he would never see again.

“I heard her voice, I heard the voice of my children, I was astonished, it cannot