Family of missing Australian boy share their doomed efforts to bring him home
“They want us to surrender,” the boyish voice says. He speaks urgently, the din of a prison behind him. “It’s probably the last time I’m going to call you.”
And so it proved. That voice note, sent on the afternoon of 26 January, was the last his family ever heard from Yusuf Zahab, an Australian teenager caught in the middle of a deadly Islamic State attack in January on the prison where he was being held with 750 other boys, none ever charged with a crime.
Hala spoke to the Guardian for an episode of Today in Focus, our daily news podcast. You can listen to her tell Yusuf’s story here.
