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An 85-year-old Israeli woman who was taken hostage by Hamas has spoken out about her harrowing two-week ordeal, recalling how she was initially beaten and thrown on a motorbike but later cared for and treated kindly by her abductors.
“I’ve been through hell,” Yocheved Lifshitz told reporters while seated outside of a Tel Aviv hospital, with her daughter translating, after her release late Monday with fellow prisoner Nurit Cooper, 79. The two women’s husbands, who were among more thanYocheved Lifshitz speaks to the media outside a hospital in Tel Aviv, Israel, after she was released by Hamas on Monday night.that she and other hostages were given food, medical attention, shampoo and conditioner, and mattresses to sleep on.
“The young men hit me on the way. They didn’t break my ribs but it was painful and I had difficulty breathing,” she, who stole her watch and jewelry and put her on a motorbike — with her legs and head on opposite sides. She was driven from her Nir Oz kibbutz to the neighboring Gaza territory, where she traveled on foot through what she described as a “spiderweb” of tunnels.Lifshitz blamed Israel’s leadership for effectively allowing Hamas’ attack to occur.
Authorities didn’t take early warnings seriously, she said, and Israel’s security barrier along the Gaza border did nothing to stop Hamas’ ground invasion. “It cost NIS 2 billion and it didn’t help, not even a little bit,” she said of the barrier,in a separate interview that her 83-year-old father, Oded Lifshitz, had long campaigned for coexistence with the Palestinians. She’s holding on to hope that he’s doing well.“He was very involved in rights for Palestinians and working towards peace with our neighbors,” the daughter said. “He speaks good Arabic, so can communicate very well with the people there. He knows many people in Gaza. ...
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