{"id":2110976,"date":"2023-11-29T13:19:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T18:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/85-year-old-israeli-ex-hostage-says-she-confronted-hamas-chief\/"},"modified":"2023-11-29T13:20:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T18:20:47","slug":"85-year-old-israeli-ex-hostage-says-she-confronted-hamas-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/85-year-old-israeli-ex-hostage-says-she-confronted-hamas-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"85-Year-Old Israeli Ex-Hostage Confronts Hamas Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F85-year-old-israeli-ex-hostage-says-she-confronted-hamas-chief%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2110976&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Israeli Woman Abducted by Hamas Confronts Gaza Leader<\/h2>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption>Yocheved Lifshitz, 85 (Reuters)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>An 85-year-old Israeli woman, Yocheved Lifshitz, who was abducted\u2064 by Hamas on Oct. 7 and released two weeks later, had a remarkable encounter with \u2062the Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar during her captivity.\u2062 She fearlessly questioned him about his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/officials-launch-murder-probe-into-death-of-officer-following-d-c-protests\/\" title=\"Officials launch murder probe into death of officer following D.C. protests\">violent actions<\/a> against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/george-blake-last-in-line-of-cold-war-spies-who-betrayed-britain-dies-at-98\/\" title=\"George Blake, last in line of Cold War spies who betrayed Britain, dies at 98\">peace activists<\/a> like\u2064 herself.<\/p>\n<p>Lifshitz, a resident of Kibbutz Nir Oz in Israel,\u2063 shared her experience with the Israeli newspaper <em>Davar<\/em>. She revealed that she confronted Sinwar when he visited the hostages in an\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/released-hostage-says-she-went-through-hell-in-hamas-vast-network-of-tunnels\/\" title=\"Freed captive describes harrowing ordeal in Hamas' extensive tunnel network.\">underground\u200b tunnel<\/a> where Hamas held\u2062 them captive.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Sinwar was with us three to four days after\u2062 we arrived,&#8221; Lifshitz told <em>Davar<\/em>. &#8220;I asked him how he is not ashamed to \u2064do\u200d such a\u2062 thing to people who all \u2064these years have\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rittenhouse-im-not-a-racist-person-i-support-the-blm-movement\/\" title=\"Rittenhouse: 'I'm Not a Racist Person -- I Support the BLM Movement'\">supported peace<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He didn&#8217;t answer. He was silent,&#8221; \u200cshe said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lifshitz and her husband have been\u200c dedicated peace activists, assisting sick Palestinians in Gaza to reach hospitals for many years. Unfortunately, her 83-year-old husband, Oded, was also kidnapped from their home and remains in captivity.<\/p>\n<p>After her \u2062release from Hamas captivity, Lifshitz spoke with reporters and described her harrowing experience during the two weeks she spent as a hostage in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p>She was\u200b one of four women\u200b freed by Hamas early in the conflict. Lifshitz disclosed that she was initially subjected\u200b to physical abuse upon her abduction but was treated well during her\u2062 captivity.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>On her release, she even extended her hand to shake that of a masked captor. When asked why, she replied, \u200b&#8221;They treated us \u200cgently and met all our needs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(Writing by Howard Goller, editing by William Maclean)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> I&#8217;m sorry, but you seem to have cut off your sentence. Could you please provide me with more details \u2064or complete your question so that I can assist \u200byou better?<\/p>\n<h2> Can you clarify what the\u2064 abbreviation \u200c&#8221;PAA&#8221;\u200b stands\u2064 for \u200cin your context?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  \u2064 I&#8217;m sorry, but I do \u200cnot have a specific context or knowledge about your previous\u2062 questions or statements. Therefore, I cannot \u2064clarify\u2063 the abbreviation &#8220;PAA&#8221; without additional information. Could you\u200d please provide more\u2063 context\u200d or specify the topic you are referring to?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, an Israeli woman abducted by Hamas, revealed that during her two-week captivity, she confronted Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar about his violent actions against peace activists. She questioned how he could lack shame for his actions. 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