British based artist Sharone Lifschitz doesn't know whether her 84-year-old father will be handed back alive or dead when the Gaza ceasefire comes into effect, but says she is prepared for both eventualities
Sharone Lifschitz is well aware that the odds are against her 84-year-old father. As one of the oldest
The militants took a quarter of the community’s 400 residents hostage that day, including her parents. Throughout a long career in journalism, Oded campaigned for the recognition of Palestinian rights and. In retirement, he drove to the Erez border crossing on the northern edge of the Gaza Strip once a week to ferry Palestinians to medical appointments in Israel as part of a group called On the Way to Recovery.
Yocheved later described her experience as hell, saying she was beaten with sticks and held in a spider’s web of tunnels with as many as 25 other hostages. But she also said her guards provided medicine to those who needed it and gave the hostages pita bread with cheese and cucumber to eat.“I am the last one to put words into his mouth, but I can tell you that he spent a lifetime believing that another alternative is possible for Zionism, for socialism,” she said.
The ceasefire proposal calls for 33 hostages to be released over the next six weeks, in exchange for hundreds of Palestinians imprisoned in Israel. The remainder, including the bodies of the dead, are to be released in a second phase that is still under negotiation. Hamas has said it will not release the remaining captives without a lasting ceasefire and a full withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza.
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