Extensive planning by the IDF had gone into the delicate handover, with military medics and psychologists readied for the first stages of the process at a reception centre designed to ease the hostages' transition.

"It's done with our own hands, and it's taken a while and there's thought and there's love gone into it."

Welch said she has gone into debt as costs for nurses have skyrocketed.

"He'd gone into the park and these three lads had run off with it and left him, the poor lad."

In the last three seasons, Rangers have gone into Old Firm games on the back of unbeaten runs of eight, nine, 13, 14 and 14 games only to run into a Celtic wall.