Yocheved Lifshitz, who was released by Hamas on Monday, told reporters on Tuesday that she “went through hell” in Gaza.
Lifschitz, an 85-year-old grandmother, was held captive in Gaza for more than two weeks before being released and returned to Israel late Monday evening.
“It was difficult, but we will get through this,” she said, recounting her experience to journalists outside Tel Aviv’s Sourasky Medical Center.
Speaking in Hebrew, and sitting alongside her daughter who translated, Lifchitz described how she was captured by Hamas gunmen during their brutal terror attack on Israel on October 7.
“I was kidnapped on a motorbike on my side while they were driving toward Gaza,” Lifschitz said. Her daughter explained how her head lay on one side of the motorbike while her feet dangled from the other.
“It was a painful act. They brought us into a gate. I was lying on the side on the motorbike. I got bruises because of the drive,” Lifshitz added.
Lifshitz’s daughter explained that her mother was brought down into a “huge network” of spider web-like tunnels where she was held.
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