{"id":120387,"date":"2023-10-24T21:50:47","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T21:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leviolonrouge.com\/?p=120387"},"modified":"2023-10-24T21:50:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T21:50:47","slug":"peace-gesture-by-freed-hostage-in-the-face-of-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leviolonrouge.com\/world-news\/peace-gesture-by-freed-hostage-in-the-face-of-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace gesture by freed hostage in the face of evil"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shalom,\u201d she said to the masked terrorist wearing a \u00adbalaclava and bulletproof vest emblazoned with a Hamas flag.<\/p>\n

Her use of the Hebrew greeting word \u2013 which means \u201cpeace\u201d \u2013 to one of her captors seemed to mark a rare kind of character.<\/p>\n

The man whose hand she shook was, after all, part of the group that slaughtered 1,400 Israelis on October 7 and took more than 200 hostages.<\/p>\n

The captor held her hand for a moment, accepting her good wishes.<\/p>\n

Known as Yochi, the gesture was \u00adfitting for a woman who, along with her husband, 83-year-old Oded, has been a peace activist all her life. She was released alongside 79-year-old Nurit Cooper on Monday night.<\/p>\n

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At a press conference yesterday, a frail-looking Yochi told the world of the \u201chell\u201d she went through as a captive.<\/p>\n

Explaining why she went back to speak to one of the terrorists who snatched her and others in a murderous raid on the Nir Oz kibbutz, she said: \u201cBecause they treated us very nicely.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yochi, who uses a wheelchair, smiled as the women were welcomed back by Red Cross staff and taken by ambulance to Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n

Yet Oded remains a Hamas prisoner along with those who were snatched on the day that hundreds of Israelis were killed in a massacre similar to the one on October 7 \u2013 the day when 1,400 Israelis were killed in a massacre similar to the pograms that targeted Jews in the 19th and 20th centuries in Europe<\/p>\n

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Yochi was joined at the hospital by her London-based daughter Sharone, 52.<\/p>\n

She said of her parents\u2019 captors yesterday: \u201cMy mum is saying they were very delicate and gentle with them and took care of all their needs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey seemed really prepared like they had concealed it for a long time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey took care of all the women\u2019s needs, shampoo, conditioner.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Sharone, an award-winning artist and filmmaker, was left in no doubt of the \u00adhorror suffered by her parents after they were abducted from their home near the Gaza border.<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cMy mum was saying she was taken on the back of a motorbike, with her legs on one side and her head on another.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was taken through ploughed fields, with men on one side and behind her.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile she was taken, she was hit with sticks until they reached tunnels. There, they walked for a few kilometres on the wet ground.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yochi was left short of breath and was bruised by the beating, then stripped of her watch and jewellery before being taken into the fanatics\u2019 underground lair.<\/p>\n