BRAVE British hostage Emily Damari has spoken out for the first time since she was released by Hamas.

The 28-year-old said she is “the happiest person in the world” in the first Instagram post after 15 months in captivity.

She wrote: “I’m loving, loving, loving. Thanks be to G-d. Thanks to my family, to Oreli, to the best friends I have in this world. I have returned to life, my loved ones.

“I have managed to see just a tiny bit of everything, and you have shattered my heart from emotion. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I am the happiest person in the world, just to be.”

At the end of her post she signed with a “rock on ” emoji symbolising her two missing fingers she lost the day she was shot in the hand by Hamas.

Spurs fan Emily was among the first three captives to be freed from a list of 33 due for release over six weeks.

Dramatic footage showed her being surrounded by masked  gun-wielding terrorists as she got out of the van alongside Israeli captives Romi Gonen, 24, and Doron Steinbrecher, 31,

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