Yocheved Lifshitz, who was held by Hamas but freed later, gave an insight into the conditions that she and other hostages were held in. The 85-year-old Israeli said that her Hamas captors went to great lengths to ensure they had medical care and drugs and ate the same food as the militants did. “There were guards and paramedics and a doctor who took care of us … ensured we had the same medicine that we need. There we laid on mattresses. “They took care of the sanitary side so we didn’t get sick, if there were not the medicines [that matched ours] they would bring substitute medicines, the equivalent,” she added.
