I WENT THROUGH HELL SAYS 85 YEAR OLD HOSTAGE RELEASED BY HAMAS

 Yocheved Lifschitz - one of two hostages freed by Hamas on Monday - says: "I went through hell, that I could not have known"

Speaking to the media from a hospital in Tel Aviv, she describes how she was kidnapped by Hamas gunmen on motorbikes

Assisting her mother, her daughter says Lifschitz and her fellow captives were hit with sticks and taken into a "spider's web" of underground tunnels

Describing the conditions she and fellow captives were held in, Lifschitz says they slept on mattresses on the floor in the tunnels

Her group were given white cheese and cucumbers to eat, the same as her Hamas captors, she says

Lifschitz and Nurit Cooper were released last night but their husbands are still being held

Four hostages have now been released, of more than 200 taken. Two American-Israelis, mother and daughter Judith and Natalie Raanan, were freed on Friday

The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says 5,000 have been killed since 7 October. More than 1,400 were killed in the Hamas attacks on Israel.

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