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(Fixes spelling in later references to Emilia) By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) -When the Hamas gunmen stormed in, smashing and setting fire to the country home where Danielle Alony was spending a holiday weekend with her daughter Emilia, she hugged the five-year-old close and said: “I’m sorry, my love. We’re going to die.” But they ended up dragged into Gaza after Alony persuaded her sister, with whom she was staying, that it was better to go out and risk being shot than to succumb to the smoke and flames. Finding themselves among some 240 people abducted by the Palestinian Islamist group …

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