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Addressing a memorial event in London on Sunday, Ms Damari’s mother, Mandy Damari, said that hostages that were released last November told her they had contact with her in captivity.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery day is living hell not knowing what Emily is going through,” she said. <\/p>\n
She said Britain and other countries need to do more to secure the release of her daughter and the other hostages.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow is it that she is still imprisoned there after one year? Why isn’t the whole world, especially Britain, fighting every moment to secure her release? She’s one of their own,” she said.<\/p>\n
She told the crowd how her daughter, who was born in Israel and lived there, loved to visit the UK – her “second home across the sea”. <\/p>\n
Ms Damari loved watching Spurs play, going to the pub and shopping at Primark, her mother added.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said the country must “unequivocally” stand with the Jewish community and described 7 October as the “darkest day in Jewish history since the Holocaust\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a father, a husband, a son, a brother \u2013 meeting the families of those who lost their loved ones last week was unimaginable. Their grief and pain are ours, and it is shared in homes across the land,” Sir Keir said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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