Free Israeli captive Yocheved Lifschitz in a testimony said that she greeted and shook hands with her captive Hamas fighter because Gazan fighters treated them nicely.
According to a translation provided by Israeli media: “We went through the tunnels until we reached a large hall. We were a group of 25 people, and after a few hours they separated us according to which Kibbutz we were from.”
“The guards were next to us with a paramedic and a doctor. We lay there on mattresses and they took care of the sanitary situation. A doctor came every 2-3 days to check on us. A paramedic was there as well and provided some medicines. There was a guy who was carried by a motorbike and he was badly injured in his hands and legs – it was hard to look at him. But he is in a better condition now.”
“There were a lot of women there, they took care of women's hygiene. They clean us for diseases as they feared that themselves would be contaminated by infections.”
“They were friendly in their way,” she said.
“We ate the same food that they ate, white chees and cucumber – that was a meal for a whole day,” she said while seated in a wheelchair.
A frail-looking 85-year-old Lifshitz told reporters she was beaten by sticks during her abduction, but was treated well during captivity.
“The guys beat me on the way, they didn’t break my ribs but hurt me,” the 85-year-old told media at a Tel Aviv hospital.
“They treated us well,” she said, explaining a doctor visited her and fellow captives every two to three days.
She told Israeli reporters that her captors drove her into Gaza and then forced her to walk several kilometers on wet ground to reach a network of tunnels that looked like a spider web.
She said the people assigned to guard her “told us they are people who believe in the Quran and wouldn’t hurt us”.
