An 85-year-old Israeli freed after more than two weeks of captivity by Hamas militants said on Tuesday “I went through hell” during her abduction to war-torn Gaza.
US President Joe Biden, speaking earlier in Washington, allowed for the possibility of a ceasefire if the other captives are freed, saying: “We should have those hostages released and then we can talk.” They “beat me on the way — they didn’t break my ribs but hurt me very much,” said the elderly woman, seated in a wheelchair and surrounded by media at a Tel Aviv hospital.
“They had everything that men and women needed, including shampoo,” she told journalists. “We ate the same food they did — pitas with cream cheese, melted cheese, cucumbers.”Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to destroy Hamas and warned of a looming ground invasion of Gaza, raising the spectre of heavy urban combat and heightening the risk for the hostages.
Thousands of buildings have been levelled in the densely populated enclave, with entire city blocks reduced to rubble and many victims still feared buried beneath.
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