Following her release from Hamas captivity, 85-year-old Israeli peace advocate Yocheved Lifshitz revealed that she had a face-to-face encounter with the group’s leader during her harrowing ordeal.
According to Lifshitz, Hamas terror chief Yahya Sinwar visited the hostages within the initial days of their captivity in Gaza. At a rally outside the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, she recounted questioning Sinwar about his lack of shame for mistreating people who have long supported peace.
Sinwar remained silent during the encounter.
Yocheved and her 83-year-old husband, Oded, were kidnapped from their home in Kibbutz Nir Oz, a community they played a role in establishing in the 1950s. While Yocheved has been freed, Oded is still believed to be held hostage in the Gaza Strip.
Recounting her nearly month-long captivity, Lifshitz described the experience as hellish, emphasizing the terrorists’ brutality in targeting the elderly and children during the incursion on Kibbutz Nir Oz and other border communities.
Expressing her determination at a rally on Tuesday evening, Lifshitz, a committed peace advocate who has previously facilitated medical care for Palestinians in Israel, declared her intent to protest until all hostages, including her husband Oded, are safely returned.
Meanwhile, the Hamas chief, Sinwar, 61, remains a top target for Israel, with Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu referring to him as a “dead man walking” in the aftermath of the October 7 massacre.
Lifshitz’s account of her encounter with Sinwar aligns with reports that the Hamas leader met with other abductees from Nir Oz in the days following the attack. Allegedly, Sinwar assured the victims of their safety, stating, “Hello, I am Yahya Sinwar. You are the most protected here. Nothing will happen to you,” as conveyed by a relative of a recently released hostage in an interview with Israel’s Channel 12 news.
Sinwar received a 22-year imprisonment for the 1989 abduction and murder of two Israeli soldiers and four Palestinians. Notably, he learned Hebrew during his incarceration. Released in 2011 as part of a contentious exchange deal to free kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, Sinwar was designated as a terrorist by the United States in 2015.
{Matzav.com Israel}
Something doesn’t add up! She was just 15 years old in 1950!
If she was 15 years old in 1950 then she is 88 now
It says 50s which could mean 58.
SO what? why can’t a 15 year old help build up a community. Especially in those days?
If the Israeli intelligence is so sophisticated and great, how come they couldn’t eliminate Sanwar as he moved around to visit the hostages? Is Israel afraid to kill Sanwar? Does politics come before safety?
The Rasha Sinwar didn’t answer because his policy is from the river to the sea, and does not discriminate between this Jew and that one. Understandably, Mrs. Lifshitz is in a weak emotional state to have made such a comment to the terrorist leader, trying to distinguish herself and her friends, from the other Jews. May she have a refuah sheleima and learn from her experience that evil cannot be negotiated with.
In a previous article on this sight, it said that Netanyanu has been offered 6 times to kill this rasha merusha but has declined so I’m not sure what he means when he says “he is a dead man walking”. Explain please.
Is/will she continue to promote this peace of garbage with the poor downtrodden Palestinians once this war is over? A leftist is a leftist.