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Yocheved Lifshitz, a grandmother and Israeli peace activist, was kidnapped, beaten and held in tunnels built by Hamas for 17 days. In harrowing detail, an...
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An Israeli hostage released by Hamas has described her ordeal after she was kidnapped by gunmen and taken into a tunnel system in Gaza during the Palestinian militant group's deadly assault in Israel on October 7, saying "I went through hell."
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Rutie Mizrahi didn’t trust initial reports that her 85-year-old aunt, Yocheved Lifshitz, was among two hostages freed Monday
The woman, Yocheved Lifshitz, a peace activist from Nir Oz, a kibbutz near the Gaza border, was released Tuesday along with another woman, Nurit Cooper, 79, after negotiations between Israel and Hamas were facilitated by Egypt and Qatar. Only two other hostages out of at least 222 have been released since the Hamas rampage on Oct. 7 left more than 1,400 people dead in Israel.