The daughter of one of the hostages released by Hamas says that "she seems to be fine" and that "she is very lucid"

He emphasizes that he "wants to provide information" about the situation of other hostages forcibly transferred to the enclave after the attacks of October 7

Sharone Lifschitz, daughter of Yocheved Lifschitz, one of the hostages released on Monday afternoon by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) after her kidnapping along with more than 200 people during the attacks carried out on October 7 by the Islamist group against territory Israeli, has indicated that "he seems to be fine" and that he "wants to provide information" about the situation of other hostages forcibly transferred to the Gaza Strip.

"She is very lucid and wants to share the information, talk to the families of other hostages she was with," he said in statements given to the British radio station BBC Radio 4. "I sat next to her for an hour and now my brother is with her. Everyone is very tired. A lot has happened," she said, before being "proud" of her mother.

"Seeing my mother again is something incredible," he said, before mentioning the video of Lifschitz's release, in which he can be seen returning and briefly shaking hands with a Hamas member. "The way he left and then came back to say thank you was quite incredible. It's very much his," he highlighted, before remembering that "there are still 200 people there and we must not get carried away by personal joy, but rather work to the liberation of all."

Thus, he stressed that his mother's release "is a small ray of light, but there is enormous darkness and the war is still going on." "There are atrocities that we have not begun to process. I don't know if my mother knows about the house and that everything has disappeared," said Lifschitz, who emphasized that the family "lives day by day."

In this sense, he has acknowledged that the family still does not have information about his father, who was also kidnapped. "He was not with my mother, so she does not know where he is. My father was increasingly fragile," he warned, before specifying that his father "was very involved in political affairs in the kibbutz", as well as "in the Palestinian rights and work towards peace with neighbors.

Lifschitz has detailed that his father was of the opinion that "it is necessary to find a way to live together." "He felt that it was very easy to find her and he was very disappointed and strongly fought against the idea of ​​occupation and perpetual war." "I hope that he is there, that he is being cared for and that he has the opportunity to speak. He speaks Arabic well and can communicate very well with the people there. He knows a lot of people in Gaza, so I would like to think that he will be fine," he said. ditched

Hours later, Yocheved Lifshitz herself, 85, recounted her kidnapping during the attack on October 7 and detailed that she was transported on a motorcycle "with her legs on one side and her head on the other" while she was beaten with sticks. . The attackers also stole her watch and other jewelery before forcing her to cross an area of ​​fields until they reached the network of tunnels, which she has described as "a spider's web".

Likewise, he stressed that he "suffered hell" during the attacks and indicated that Hamas members broke into the kibbutz after "blowing up" the fence, which "cost 2.5 billion dollars (about 2.35 billion euros) to build and that It didn't help at all." "The masses devastated our houses. They beat people and kidnapped some. They did not distinguish between young people and the elderly, it was very painful," he lamented.

Lifschitz has also stated that, once in the Gaza tunnels, Hamas members told them that "they were believers in the Koran and would not harm them." "They told us that we would live in the same conditions as them in the tunnels," she said, before emphasizing that they were watched "closely", as reported by the Israeli newspaper 'Haaretz'.

In this sense, she explained that she went through a tunnel until she reached a room where there were 25 other hostages, after which she and four other people were transferred to another room for between two and three hours, according to the newspaper 'The Times of Israel'. "The treatment we received was good," she said, before adding that she received medicine and food during her captivity at the hands of Hamas.

Hamas on Monday released Lifshitz and Nurit Cooper - both residents of the Nir Oz kibbutz - who were taken to a hospital in Israel. The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked Egypt for "its help" and the International Committee of the Red Cross "for its important, life-saving role."

The news of the release was published by the armed wing of Hamas, the Ezzeldin al Qassam Brigades, which reported the release "for reasons of force majeure" and reasons for "illness" of the two women, according to the spokesman for the military wing of Hamas. Islamist group, Abu Obeida.

Hamas attacks left nearly 1,400 dead and more than 220 kidnapped. For their part, the authorities of the Gaza Strip, controlled by the Islamist group, have confirmed more than 5,000 Palestinians killed by the Israeli Army's bombings, in addition to more than 90 in operations by the Israeli security forces. and settler attacks in the West Bank.