TEL AVIV.- An Israeli octogenarian freed on Monday by Hamas said the “hell” she went through when she was kidnapped in Israel and taken to a “web” of tunnels in Gaza. Although they beat him with clubs along the way, he assured that during his captivity They treated her “well”like most of the hostages, and criticized the Israeli Army for not having prevented the attacks of the Palestinian group.
“I went through hell we had never imagined.”said Yocheved Lifshitz85, speaking to journalists at a hospital in the city of Tel Aviv, hours after Hamas handed her over to the Egyptian authorities.
“They took me with my legs on one side and my head on the other side of a motorcycle,” said the woman in a wheelchair.
The woman indicated that the Hamas terrorists who infiltrated Israel on October 7 They “razed” the Kibbutz of Nir Ozthe farming community near Gaza where she was kidnapped along with her husband, who is still being held, and other people.
The border fence between Israel and Gaza “it was of no use”criticized the woman, who added that the barrier was “blown up” and that a “mob” of fighters immediately flooded the kibbutz.
Lifshitz, who was freed along with another 79-year-old Israeli, said that On the way to Gaza she was beaten with sticks that hurt her ribs and made it difficult for her to breathe.. She added that her captors took her watch and jewelry and then forced her to walk through fields before reaching a network of tunnels, which she described as similar to “a spider web.”.
Her daughter Sharone knelt at her side from time to time to help her make her voice heard, repeat some of her comments and translate her story into English.
Once in captivity, Lifschitz explained that he went through a tunnel and came to a large room where another 25 of the 222 hostages were gathered who according to the Army are being held in Gaza by Hamas.
“They told us that they believed in the Koran and that they would not harm us, that they would give us the same conditions as in the tunnels”he said.
