Daughter of Israeli hostage speaks out

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🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Israeli, US and Qatari intelligence chiefs met in Doha today for hostage negotiations. Over 200 hostages were taken by Hamas and other groups are still not freed. Some of what we do know about their conditions comes mostly from one woman: Yocheved Lifschitz. At 85, on October 7, she was grabbed in her nightgown and taken by Hamas into Gaza. She is one of only four people to be released so far. Her daughter Sharone was by her side at a Tel Aviv Hospital, as Yocheved explained the spiders web of tunnels she was held in. But the family nightmare continues, with Sharone’s elderly father Oded is still being held. Sharone joins Christiane to mark one month since the Hamas atrocities and call on her government to put the fate of hostages first. Also on today's show: Israeli peace activist Robi Damelin & Bassam Aramin, The Parents Circle Families Forum; Giva Haveeva Education Center Director of Strategy Mohammad Darawshe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up. The United
0:08.7	Nations now says that both Hamas and Israel have committed war crimes as garans flee and hostages
0:15.4	are still trapped. My conversation with Sharon Lipschitt, whose mother was released by Hamas
0:20.8	but whose father remains captive.
0:23.8	Then, United in grief, a Palestinian and an Israeli who lost children
0:29.4	to the conflict years ago share their message of peace and hope.
0:34.5	Also ahead, being an Arab Israeli,
0:37.5	Mohammed Daroche talks to Michelle Martin
0:40.7	about straddling two worlds.
0:43.0	Plus, 34 years ago today, the Berlin Wall came down,
0:48.0	and we go into our archive to bring you the man who made it happen,
0:52.0	the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. A sea of
1:17.3	humanity escaping northern Gaza. Thousands of Palestinians continue to walk miles on foot in a desperate bid for safety from Israel's offensive.
1:28.0	The IDF has allowed another evacuation pause the fifth so far,
1:32.0	and the number of people fleeing south is increasing every day.
1:36.5	This as the UN says bluntly that both Hamas and Israel have committed war crimes in this war.
1:44.0	The atrocities perpetrated by Palestinian armed groups on the 7th of October were heinous.
1:50.0	They were war crimes, as is the continued holding of hostages.
1:56.3	The collective punishment by Israel of Palestinian civilians is also a war crime, is unlawful forcible evacuation of civilians.
2:07.0	Now Israeli, American and Katari intelligence chiefs met in Doha today for hostage negotiations.
2:16.0	Over 200 taken by Hamas and other groups are still not free.
2:21.0	What little we do know about their conditions comes mostly from one woman,
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