An 85-year-old Israeli woman abducted by Hamas on October 7 and released two weeks later said she met Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in the Gaza Strip while in captivity. Yocheved Lifshitz was transported from Kibbutz Nir Oz in Israel to the Gaza Strip.
It was while visiting hostages in an underground tunnel where they were being held captive by an Islamic group that the woman said she wondered how she was not ashamed of having acted brutally against peace activists like her.
“He didn’t answer. He was silent,” Lifshits told the Davar newspaper, as quoted by Reuters.
Yocheved Lifshitz was transported from Kibbutz Nir Oz in Israel to the Gaza Strip. She is a peace activist who, along with her husband, spent years helping sick Palestinians in the Gaza Strip get to hospital, her grandson told Reuters. Her 83-year-old husband Oded was also kidnapped from their home and remains in captivity.
After his release last month, Lifshitz said he went “through hell” during the two weeks he was held hostage in the Gaza Strip.
Yocheved was one of four women released by Hamas early in the war. The former hostage claims she was beaten when she was kidnapped, but was later treated well during her two weeks in captivity.
Author: morning Post
Source: CM Jornal
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