For five days, Gili Roman waited for a phone call to bring news of his sister’s release among the first group of hostages freed from Gaza in November, after weeks of relentless violence in the war between Israel and Hamas.
When the call came at two in the morning, he cycled from Tel Aviv to his father’s home in a neighbouring town. There they waited, and when morning came he told his three-year-old niece of her mother’s return, watching as she ran through the apartment smiling and laughing.
