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Majeda El-Batsh and Michael Blum

Parents In 'Emotional Shock Wave' After Son Freed From Gaza

A billboard depicting Andrey Kozlov, at right, and the three other Israeli hostages, hangs in Tel Aviv after their rescue from Gaza by Israeli forces (Credit: AFP)

When Andrey Kozlov saw his mother after being rescued from eight months of captivity in Gaza, the Russian-Israeli fell to his knees while she hugged him.

"It was so emotional that we just could not talk", Kozlov's mother, Evguenia, told AFP of the day she was reunited with her son last week, in images broadcast over Israeli TV and social media.

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