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Tottenham Hotspur fans held a touching demonstration on Sunday in support of Emily Damari, an Israeli hostage with dual British citizenship and a known supporter of the team. Ahead of Tottenham’s home game against Aston Villa in the Premier League’s tenth round, fans gathered to demand her release. Supporters of the 28-year-old held a counter-protest in response to an anti-Israel demonstration organized by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign in central London.
They gathered outside the Spurs shop for a three-hour vigil before kickoff, raising awareness among Tottenham fans and calling for Emily’s release. 1 View gallery Tottenham Hotspur fans call for the release of Emily Damari ( Photo: X ) Emily Damari was shot and forcibly taken from her home in Kfar Aza during the October 7 terror attacks. Freed hostages have since reported the severe sexual abuse suffered by female captives.
Mandy Damari, Emily’s mother, has voiced the anguish of not knowing what her daughter faces. “Every day is living hell not knowing what Emily is going through. I do know from the hostages who returned that they were starved, sexually abused, and tortured.
Every moment lost is another moment of unimaginable suffering or even death,” she said. Tottenham football fans chant 🎶 ‘She’s one of our own, she’s one of our own, Emily Damari, bring Emily home’ 🎶 outside the stadium. 🇬🇧🇮🇱 British-Israeli hostage and mega Spurs fan Emily Damari has been held by Hamas in captivity for almost 1 year and 1 month.
pic.twitter.com/JtB4kEsdpc — Sabrina Miller (@SabriSun_Miller) November 3, 2024 She added: “How is it 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.” Stop the Hate UK organizer Itai Galmundy told the UK Jewish News: “The whole point of us coming here today as British football fans is to raise awareness with British people about the plight of a British young lady who has been held for over a year in the dungeons of Hamas. That’s why we are coming to talk to them.
” Spurs fans holding a rally before today’s game v Aston Villa for Emily Damari, the last remaining British hostage held by Hamas. Good to see fellow supporters stopping and engaging positively but more awareness needed @StopTheHate_UK pic.twitter.
com/OzemA4Zlgw — Jacob Steinberg 🎗️ (@JacobSteinberg) November 3, 2024 He added: “Like any other British person, she likes to go to the pub, to have a pint, she likes to have a cup of tea, she likes dry humor and she loves the Spurs. We believe the British public is just not aware of this problem and we regard it as a British problem. It’s got nothing to do with Israel.
It’s got nothing to do with the fact that she’s a Jew. It only has to do with the fact that she’s a fellow Brit. And they need to know that we have to bring her home.
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