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Recently released hostage says she doesn’t know where Hamas kept her after being taken into Gaza
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Yocheved Lifshitz (sitting) with her grandchildren at Ichilov Hospital following her release from Hamas captivity on October 23, 2023. (Courtesy)
In her first public comments since being released from Hamas captivity, Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, tells the Ynet news site that she doesn’t know where she was held after being captured by Hamas terrorists.
“They schooled us,” she says, appearing to refer to the October 7 Hamas onslaught.
“They loaded me onto a motorcycle… with one terrorist holding me from the front and the other from behind so that I wouldn’t fall. We crossed the border fence into the Strip, and at first they held me in the town of Abasan al-Kabira, which is close to [Kibbutz] Be’eri. After that, I don’t know where I was taken,” she says.
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