Israeli woman released by Hamas describes time as hostage

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Released Hamas hostage Yocheved Lifshitz said she was beaten with sticks after being snatched from her home before being held in a “spider web” of tunnels under Gaza.Source: PA

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00:00 There are a huge network of tunnels underneath.
00:07 It looks like a spider web.
00:26 My mom is telling the horrific stories.
00:30 She is saying that many, many people, a swarm of people, came through the fence.
00:35 The fence cost two and a half billion shekels and it didn't help even a little bit.
00:42 My mom is saying that she was taken on the back of a motorbike
00:47 with her legs on one side and her head on another side.
00:52 That she was taken through the plowed fields with a man in front on one side and a man behind her.
00:59 And that while she was being taken she was hit by sticks by Shabab.
01:07 Yeah, Shabab people.
01:10 Until they reached the tunnels.
01:19 There they walked for a few kilometers on the wet ground.
01:28 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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