Yocheved Lifshitz, speaking from Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital, described the “unimaginable hell” of her kidnapping ordeal.
| Released Israeli hostage Yocheved Lifshitz described on Tuesday the “unimaginable hell” of her kidnapping ordeal that included being thrown over the back of a motorcycle, beaten with 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, adding that she was robbed of her watch and jewellery while on the motorcycle. “They seemed prepared for it,” she said about the hostage takers. “They prepared for this for a long time.”The news conference, which has been promoted by the hospital’s spokesman as one that would offer “shocking testimony”, was criticised as exploitative by some in Israel who saw it.
In an interview with Kan News, her son Yizhar said she shook hands with her captor upon her release “because he had kept her alive and she thanked him. That is all. It has nothing to do with the savage murderers who rampaged through the kibbutz. Her rage at them also remains”.Sharone Lifschitz, a daughter who is normally based in London, also spoke about her 83-year-old father, Oded, who is still believed to be in Gaza.
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