Parents in 'emotional shock wave' after son freed from Gaza
When Andrey Kozlov saw his mother after being rescued from eight months of captivity in Gaza, the Russian-Israeli fell to his knees while she hugged him.
"It was so emotional that we just could not talk", Kozlov's mother, Evguenia, told AFP of the day she was reunited with her son last week, in images broadcast over Israeli TV and social media.
She feared "that Andrey would not be the same again", she said, adding that the meeting "was a storm of energy, an emotional shock wave coming from him".
![Evguenia and Mikhail Kozlov flew from their Russian home to Israel to see their son Andrey after his rescue from eight months of captivity in Gaza](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/2024-06/e82b93bc26e5ceffdefa3764c18ff97e5e38aeb3.jpg?h=69f2b9d0&itok=HG6A1HFS)