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Eighty-five year-old Yocheved Lifschitz spoke of a “hell that we never knew before and never thought we would experience” as she described the harrowing assault on her kibbutz by Hamas militants and the terror of being taken hostage into the Gaza Strip

A GRANDMOTHER released as a hostage by Hamas militants is “very sharp and is very keen” to share information, her daughter has said.

Hamas, who took more than 200 hostages in an attack in Israel two weeks ago, said it released the hostages – two elderly Israeli women – on ‘humanitarian grounds’

Yocheved Lifshitz tells reporters Hamas hit her with sticks and kept her in a 'spider web' of tunnels

London-based daughter of one of hostages released tells BBC her mother, 85, is OK but her father is still missing

Watch live as family members of British-Israeli Hamas hostages address the Israeli Embassy in London on Tuesday, 24 October.

London-based Sharone Lifschitz said her 85-year-old mother, Yocheved Lifshitz, ‘seems OK’ after her weeks-long ordeal.