Daughter of freed Hamas hostage says no information on her father, still being held captive

Sharone Lifschitz, the UK-based daughter of Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, who was released last night, says the family still has no information on the fate of her father Oded, 83, who was also taken captive.

“He was not with my mum, so my mum doesn’t know where he is,” Sharone Lifschitz tells the BBC in an interview.

“My father was getting more frail. Both of them are very loving people, family people. They really loved hosting the family and my father was very involved in political things in the kibbutz.

“He was very involved in rights for Palestinians and working towards peace with our neighbors,” she says adding that he was a long-time campaigner for coexistence with the Palestinians.

“And I hope that he’s there and he’s being looked after and he’s got the chance to talk,” she says. “He speaks good Arabic, so can communicate very well with the people there. He knows many people in Gaza. I want to think he’s going to be OK.

“I know for my mum, she says they have been looked after and there was a doctor there so this brings a lot of comfort to everybody that there is some treatment.”