Daughter of hostages says some Britons ‘almost celebrating’ Hamas attacks
A British-Israeli woman whose parents were taken hostage by Hamas said it “pains” her to see some Britons “almost celebrating” the October 7 attacks on Israel.
Sharone Lifschitz’s 85-year-old mother, Yocheved, was among the first hostages to be freed by the militant group in October, but her 83-year-old father, Oded, remains in captivity.
Gunmen shot at her parents’ safe room on Kibbutz Nir Oz, near the border with Gaza, leaving her father unconscious – while her mother was disconnected from her oxygen machine and dragged into the Strip on a motorbike.
The 52-year-old told the PA news agency people in the UK should avoid picking sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as if it were “a football game”.
