The 85-year-old Yocheved Lifshitz said militants rampaged through her kibbutz, threw her on the back of a motorcycle, beat her with sticks and took her to Gaza.
Yocheved Lifshitz at a news conference with her family outside a Tel Aviv hospital on Tuesday after Hamas released her from captivity. TEL AVIV — Released Israeli hostage Yocheved Lifshitz described on Tuesday her “nightmare” kidnapping ordeal that included being thrown over the back of a motorcycle, beaten by sticks and held in a “spiderweb” of wet tunnels after she was abducted from a kibbutz in southern Israel.
“They didn’t break my ribs, but they hurt this area a lot, and that made breathing very difficult,” she said. She said she was robbed of her watch and jewelry while on the motorcycle.The hostages were taken to a “huge network” of tunnels that looked “like a spiderweb.” She described how they walked for two to three hours in damp passageways until they reached a large hall, where their group of 25 hostages was separated according to which kibbutz they were from.
In a separate interview, she told the BBC that her father was “very involved” in campaigning for the rights of Palestinians and for peace and would regularly drive Palestinians to Israeli hospitals for treatments. “I hope he is being looked after and has the chance to talk. He speaks good Arabic, so he can communicate very well with the people there.
Asked whether this was the end of her parents’ dream of living in peace with neighbors, she said, “No, no, no, no … I don’t think so at all, we have to find ways because there is no alternative. If anything it makes me more resolved.”to allow aid to civilians. The blockade on the Gaza Strip has been in place since the Hamas attacks on Oct. 7.
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