A handout picture provided by the Lebanese Prime Minister's Press Office shows Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati (C) and Army commander in chief Joseph Aoun (R) meeting with Major General Aroldo Lazaro Saenz, the head of mission and force commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) at the peacekeeping force's headquarters in the southern town of Naqura near the border with Israel, on October 24, 2023. - As tensions have again risen sharply on the border, UNIFIL, the buffer between Israel and Lebanon since 1978, has warned that the situation could get "out of control". (Photo by Lebanese Prime Minister's Press Office / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO /LEBANESE PRIME MINISTER'S PRESS OFFICE" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS - RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO /LEBANESE PRIME MINISTER'S PRESS OFFICE" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS /
A handout picture provided by the Lebanese Prime Minister's Press Office shows Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati (C) and Army commander in chief Joseph Aoun (R) meeting with Major General Aroldo Lazaro Saenz, the head of mission and force commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) at the peacekeeping force's headquarters in the southern town of Naqura near the border with Israel, on October 24, 2023. - As tensions have again risen sharply on the border, UNIFIL, the buffer between Israel and Lebanon since 1978, has warned that the situation could get "out of control". (Photo by Lebanese Prime Minister's Press Office / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO /LEBANESE PRIME MINISTER'S PRESS OFFICE" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS - RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO /LEBANESE PRIME MINISTER'S PRESS OFFICE" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS /
A handout picture provided by the Lebanese Prime Minister’s Press Office shows Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati (C) and Army commander in chief Joseph Aoun (R) meeting with Major General Aroldo Lazaro Saenz, the head of mission and force commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) at the peacekeeping force’s headquarters in the southern town of Naqura near the border with Israel, on October 24, 2023. – As tensions have again risen sharply on the border, UNIFIL, the buffer between Israel and Lebanon since 1978, has warned that the situation could get “out of control”. (Photo by Lebanese Prime Minister’s Press Office / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE – MANDATORY CREDIT “AFP PHOTO /LEBANESE PRIME MINISTER’S PRESS OFFICE” – NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS – DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS – RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE – MANDATORY CREDIT “AFP PHOTO /LEBANESE PRIME MINISTER’S PRESS OFFICE” – NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS – DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS /
An Israeli 85-year-old freed by Palestinian militant group Hamas said Tuesday she “went through hell” during her abduction, but was treated well during more than two weeks held captive in Gaza.
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Yocheved Lifshitz was a resident of Nir Oz kibbutz, one of the Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip which Hamas militants attacked on October 7.
“I went through hell, I didn’t think or know I’d get to this situation. They went on a rampage in our kibbutz, kidnapped me, lay me over a motorcycle… and sped off with me through the ploughed fields,” she said a day after her release.
“The guys beat me on the way, they didn’t break my ribs but hurt me there very much,” Lifshitz said.
“They treated us well,” she told reporters at a Tel Aviv hospital, explaining a doctor visited her and fellow hostages every two to three days and provided medicines.
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Her husband, also in his 80s, is among more than 200 hostages still being held in Gaza.
“They treated us gently, and provided all our needs,” she said, when asked why she reached out to shake the hand of a militant the moment she was freed.
Lifshitz described her captors as “very friendly” and “very courteous” people who held her with four other captives.
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“They seemed ready for this, they prepared for a long time, they had everything that men and women needed, including shampoo,” she told journalists.
“We ate the same food they did — pitas with cream cheese, melted cheese, cucumbers. That was a meal for an entire day,” said Lifshitz.
The octogenarian was released along with fellow Nir Oz resident Nurit Cooper, 79, three days after an American woman and her daughter were freed.
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