The statements made by the released Israeli prisoner, after she was detained by the Palestinian resistance, today provoked a state of anger and condemnation in the Israeli

circles, especially the government ones, and considered them as damage to the image "at a sensitive time" as Israel is making efforts to show itself as an aggressor, and that

the continuous shelling over the heads of civilians in Gaza for more than two weeks is only to defend itself.

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Edited by| Christian Megan

 

Middle East  section -  CJ journalist

 

Middle East - October,24,2023

 

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On Monday, Egyptian efforts culminated in the release by the Palestinian resistance of two Israeli detainees, Nurit Cooper and yochvid Lifshitz, with the facilitation of the Red

Cross Society, which transported them by ambulance to the Egyptian Rafah crossing, and moved from Egypt to Israel aboard a military helicopter.

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on Tuesday that sources in the prime minister's office and at the Ichilov Hospital, where yochvid Lifshitz is receiving psychological

support and health care, confirmed that "the words of a resident of the Nir Oz settlement who was released from (resistance) captivity caused a distortion of the image "at a

sensitive time, but added that it is not possible to control the behavior of prisoners and their relatives.

The report of the Israeli newspaper "Haaretz" indicated that the prime minister's office and the commission on abductees and missing persons concerned with following up

the file of detainees in the Palestinian resistance, were shocked by the statements made by yochavid Lifshitz.

Sources in both bodies told "Haaretz" the extent of the damage that these statements may cause to Israel's efforts to enlist the support of the West.

"The words of Lifshitz, a resident of Kibbutz Nir Oz, about the medical treatment and the good treatment she received because of her words from her captors, are perceived

at the political level as image damage that harms Israeli advocacy efforts,"the journalist reported.

While she appeared in seemingly good health, given her more than two weeks in detention, yochvid Lifshitz, 85, recounting her experience to reporters outside the Sourasky

Medical Center in Tel Aviv, said today that the Palestinian resistance treated her well during her detention and that she was receiving good medical care.

Lifshitz said that a doctor periodically monitored her health condition at her detention site in Gaza, and confirmed that she received the treatment she had been receiving

periodically before she was detained.

She added that she was trapped in tunnels resembling a spider's web, and that her site was bombed more than once.

In this regard, Lifshitz condemned the IDF's attitude towards the detention of her and more than two hundred others by the resistance, and explained that it "did not take the

(resistance) threat seriously enough".

"It was difficult, but we will get through it,"she concluded.

In the latest statistics of the Israeli occupation army, he confirmed that about 222 Israeli detainees, including dual nationals, have been in the grip of the resistance since the

attack of the Palestinian factions "al-Aqsa flood" more than two weeks ago, in an unknown place and conditions.