Shadi Abu Sido said his world shattered in Israeli detention when guards told him his wife and two children had been killed in the Gaza war.
“I got hysterical,” the Gaza Palestinian photographer said.
It wasn’t until his release on Monday 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.
Abu Sido, a photojournalist, said he was detained at Shifa Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip on March 18, 2024. He was among 1,700 Palestinians detained by Israeli forces during the devastating war.
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