"He looks healthy and happy (...) He laughs, he jokes, he communicates with all of us with pleasure", says Evgenia, the mother of Andrey Kozlov, a former Hamas hostage who was rescued by the Israeli army on Saturday, 8 June. A resident of Rishon Lezion, south of Tel Aviv, 27-year-old Russian Andrey Kozlov was working as a security guard at the Tribe of Nova music festival when it was stormed on 7 October. In contact with his father and friends, he gave no sign of life from 09:00 onwards. His family was informed three weeks later that he had been abducted. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES