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Former hostage Avera Mengistu survived in Hamas tunnels—a world without light—for 11 years. A disabled Ethiopian man who crossed into Gaza by mistake, Avera was captured by Hamas and cruelly held for over a decade. This is his first Chanukah in freedom. That is a miracle.

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