'For a mother, when her child is a hostage, he's a hostage. It doesn't matter if he's alive or dead'

'For me, he is alive,' says Yael Adar, mother of hostage Tamir Adar, who the IDF announced was killed in captivity. 'Cognitively, I know he's not, but emotionally I allow myself the illusion that maybe there was a mistake, that maybe he will be found injured, that he'll return'