Freed Hamas Hostage Yocheved Lifshitz Describes ‘Spider’s Web’ of Gaza Tunnels

, 85, said Tuesday that she was beaten with sticks as she was taken by motorcycle from Kibbutz Nir Oz on Oct. 7. She was finally released along with her 79-year-old neighbor Nurit Cooper on Monday, making them just the third and fourth people of the more than 200 kidnapped by Hamas to be set free since the attacks began earlier this month. Lifshitz’s husband, 83, is still being held hostage.

Underground, Lifshitz said she first went through a tunnel into a large room containing about 25 people. After about two or three hours later, five people from her kibbutz were moved to a separate room. “They guarded us closely,” Lifshitz added., Lifshitz said there was a doctor and a paramedic underground in addition to her captors.

Lifshitz’s daughter Sharone told reporters that her mother feels the “story’s not over until everybody comes back.” The scores of hostages still held by Hamas include Lifshitz’s husband, Oded Lifshitz, a journalist who has spent decades campaigning for the rights of Palestinians, according to the BBC.

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