An 85-year-old Israeli woman was seen shaking hands with her Hamas captor after she was freed by the militant group on Monday.
In video footage released by Hamas, Yocheved Lifshitz is seen being led away from Hamas soldiers by two Red Cross workers who tell her, “It’s OK. Let’s go”.
When later asked by reporters why she turned back to shake his hand, Ms Lifshitz said her captors had treated her with “with softness and supplied all our needs”. Mr Lifschitz said a paramedic regularly came to bring her medicine while held hostage and captives are being forced to sleep on mattresses in tunnels.
She also claimed Hamas had sent a warning weeks before the October 7 attacks, sending “balloons with fire and burning our fields”.Hamas still holds the elderly husbands of Lifshitz and Cooper, among more than 200 other hostages.The release of the two Israelis comes three days after that of an American woman and her teenage daughter.
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