Two elderly Israeli women who were held for more than two weeks by Hamas after being abducted on Oct. 7 have been released , and one of them is speaking about her experience.
Two elderly Israeli women who were held for more than two weeks by Hamas after being abducted on Oct. 7 have been released, and one of them is speaking about her experience. Haaretz and the Times of Israel report that 79-year-old Nurit Cooper and 85-year-old Yocheved Lifshitz, who were both taken from their homes in Kibbutz Nir Oz during the Hamas attack, were released Monday evening. Their husbands reportedly still remain as hostages in Gaza. « I went through hell, » Lifshitz said in a statement from Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, Israel, after her release, per Haaretz. « They went rampant in our kibbutz. … Masses mobbed our homes. They beat people, took some hostage.
