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After Yocheved Lifschitz, 85, was taken hostage by Hamas militants, she was brought into a “huge network” of underground tunnels, which she described on Tuesday as being “like a spider’s web.”
“I’ve been through hell,” Lifschitz told gathered reporters in the lobby of the Tel Aviv hospital where she’s being treated. As Lifschitz spoke in Hebrew, her daughter translated her words into English.
The 85-year-old had been taken by motorcycle on Oct. 7, carried away through fields while her captors struck her with sticks and removed her watch and jewellery, she said. She was made to walk a few kilometers to the entrance of one of the many tunnels Hamas has built under Gaza.
She said she was kept during her captivity in a “clean” location, where doctors visited every few days. Medicine was available, she said.
She slept on a mattress on one of the tunnel’s floors. She ate white cheese, cucumbers and pita bread, she said.
-ABC News’ Joe Simonetti and Bruno Nota
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