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Yocheved Lifshitz, 85. Published by The Times of Israel

Yocheved Lifshitz and her husband, Oded, who Hamas still holds hostage in Gaza Credit: DANIEL LIFSHITZ ARCHIVE/Roy Published by Haaretz

Various international headlines interpreting Lifshitz press conference: Oct 24, 2023. Screenshot by Palmap

To view full press conference, paste this link into your web browser: https://www.youtube.com/live/pydlUrTyeGM

English translation begins at ~ 3:40 min
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Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, released Monday, describes hell as terrorists rampaged in kibbutz; abductors beat her on way to Gaza; was taken into ‘spiderweb’ of tunnels, treated with care

By CARRIE KELLER-LYNN, MICHAEL BACHNER and TOI STAFF. Published by The Times of Israel
24 October 2023, 3:19 pm
Updated at 4:56 pm

Released Hamas hostage Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, described Tuesday at a widely attended press conference outside Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital how her terrorist captors took her by motorcycle from Kibbutz Nir Oz to the Gaza Strip on October 7 and into a “spiderweb” of tunnels, and accused Israel’s leadership of failures that made her and others into “scapegoats.”

She said her abductors beat her on the way to Gaza, but that she was treated well by her captors.
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Continue reading at Times of Israel News Source Link
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Day 18 Update: 5,886 Palestinians Killed

by IMEMC News
Oct 25, 2023

The following is a summary of Day 18 of the latest escalation, as Israeli forces continue the massive, ongoing bombardment of the Gaza Strip, and invasions of the West Bank (source: israelpalestinenews.org).

Palestinian death toll 5,886 (5,791 in Gaza (including at least 2,055 children (800 more missing) and 1,119 women, and at least 95 in the West Bank); 17,636 injured (15,898 in Gaza – 70% of them women and children – and over 1,738 in the West Bank). It remains unknown how many Americans are among the casualties. About 1.4 million people have been displaced, more than 1,500 missing and presumed to be under rubble. Israeli death toll remains near 1,400 (1 killed in West Bank, 1 in Gaza), including 32 Americans, and 5,431 injured.
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The live press conference on Tuesday with released hostage Yocheved Lifshitz became a PR nightmare for Israel, according to Times of Israel. She described good treatment from her captors, medical care, and clean conditions. “They were very friendly to us. They took care of all of our needs,” she said. The Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation said that the press conference had been a “mistake,” and that international media were now reporting on Hamas’ kindness.

Read complete article at IMEMC News Source Link
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What We Can Learn From Released Hamas Hostage Yocheved Lifshitz

Yocheved Lifshitz just went through trauma that few in the world can comprehend. Especially in these first days as a free woman, especially as she picks up what is left of the shattered pieces of her life, we should not judge the way she processes it

by Linda Dayan for Haaretz
Oct 24, 2023
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Speaking from Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital, she [Yocheved Lifshitz] recounted her capture and beating at the hands of the terrorists as she was taken into Gaza’s tunnel system, but spoke sympathetically of her captors as well. The Hamas members made conversation. They fed the hostages from the same food they ate. They gave them shampoo and cleaned the toilets. They regularly brought doctors to them.
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Yocheved Lifshitz just went through trauma that few in the world can comprehend. Especially in these first days as a free woman, especially as she picks up what is left of the shattered pieces of her life, we should not judge the way she processes it.

But we can marvel at what seems to be her superhuman empathy. Lifshitz was faced with people who have demonstrated the gravest brutality, and still saw in them the children they once were. Lifshitz is not proving that Hamas is humane; she is proving that she is.

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