Eli Sharabi learned his wife and daughters had been killed but is ‘mentally strong’, says British brother-in-law

“Don’t worry, I will be back. Whatever they do to me, I will be back,” was one of the last things Eli Sharabi told his wife and daughters before he was abducted by Hamas.

And when the 52-year-old was freed after 16 months in captivity in Gaza, he was desperate to know if his family were waiting for him.