Yocheved Lifshitz Hamas Israeli captive
Yocheved Lifshitz (C) speaks to the media alongside her daughter Sharone Lifschitz (L) at Ichilov Hospital after she was released by Hamas on October 24, 2023, in Tel Aviv, Israel.
  • Israeli hostage Yocheved Lifschitz, 85, was freed by Hamas militants on Monday evening.
  • She said that captives are kept in a "spider's web" of underground tunnels in Gaza.
  • She told reporters she was beaten with sticks and that she "went through hell."

An 85-year-old Israeli hostage, who shook hands with her Hamas captor when she was freed, said that she was held in a "spider's web" of underground tunnels in Gaza and beaten with sticks.