{"id":274895,"date":"2023-10-25T07:22:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T07:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=274895"},"modified":"2023-10-27T07:09:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T07:09:39","slug":"israelis-lament-pr-disaster-after-freed-israeli-hostage-reveals-hamas-treated-us-very-nicely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=274895","title":{"rendered":"Israelis Lament &#8216;PR Disaster&#8217; After Freed Israeli Hostage Reveals Hamas &#8216;Treated Us Very Nicely&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Chris Menahan \u2013 Information Liberation Oct 24, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Israeli state media threw a fit on Tuesday over the &#8220;public relations disaster&#8221; of freed hostage Yocheved Lifshitz&#8217;s press conference in which she revealed that Hamas treated her and fellow captives &#8220;very nicely&#8221; and &#8220;were very delicate and gentle with them and took care of all their needs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lifshitz said Hamas were &#8220;very friendly,&#8221; &#8220;told them they were Muslims and they were not going to hurt them,&#8221; provided them with medicine and &#8220;shared with them the same food that Hamas was eating.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Israel has spent the past week accusing Hamas of being a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.informationliberation.com\/?id=64038\">baby-beheading<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lowkey0nline\/status\/1713882472654455198\">baby-raping<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.informationliberation.com\/?id=64059\">ISIS-style killing machine who rapes pregnant woman, cuts their babies out on film<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12653435\/Israeli-morgue-worker-says-horrors-inflicted-Hamass-victims-worse-Holocaust-including-decapitated-pregnant-woman-beheaded-unborn-child.html\">inflicts horrors on their victims &#8220;worse than the Holocaust.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;They gave us pitta bread, hard cheese, some low fat cream cheese, and cucumber and that was our food for the entire day.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Freed Hamas hostage Yocheved Lifshitz recounts her experience saying &quot;there were people there who took care of all the needs.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd17 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ViphYGDoVz\">https:\/\/t.co\/ViphYGDoVz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FNxgBznX0F\">pic.twitter.com\/FNxgBznX0F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sky News (@SkyNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkyNews\/status\/1716750307760185615?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 24, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sharone Lifschitz, the daughter of freed hostage Yocheved Lifshitz, recounts her mother&#39;s experience of being taken hostage by Hamas. <\/p>\n<p>She says Hamas militants were &quot;friendly&quot; and describes how another hostage was treated by a paramedic. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w3Jr8XxEZs\">https:\/\/t.co\/w3Jr8XxEZs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfa Sky 501 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AjyPjXqgiP\">pic.twitter.com\/AjyPjXqgiP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sky News (@SkyNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkyNews\/status\/1716748835777662976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 24, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Each person had a guard watching him or her. They took care of all the needs. They talked about all kinds of things, they were very friendly.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Yocheved Lifshitz details what it was like while being held hostage by Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd17 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ViphYGDoVz\">https:\/\/t.co\/ViphYGDoVz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfa Sky 501 and YouTube <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lSs5io56uH\">pic.twitter.com\/lSs5io56uH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sky News (@SkyNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkyNews\/status\/1716748128856993976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 24, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8HAMAS RELEASE FOOTAGE OF HOSTAGE RELEASE <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SWPXTIDNqM\">pic.twitter.com\/SWPXTIDNqM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarioNawfal\/status\/1716555123432787985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/liveblog_entry\/lifshitz-press-conference-panned-as-disastrous-for-israel-pr-win-for-hamas\/\">The Times of Israel, &#8220;Lifshitz press conference panned as disastrous for Israel, PR win for Hamas&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Criticism is pouring in after freed hostage Yocheved Lifshitz appeared to praise her Hamas captors and criticize Israel at a press conference earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Kan public broadcaster reports that Israeli PR experts are calling the decision to put Lifshitz in front of cameras a &#8220;mistake.&#8221; The station notes that international media is now reporting on Hamas&#8217;s kindness in taking care of the hostage&#8217;s needs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">In Israel Hayom, columnist Eddie Rothstein calls the interview a &#8220;propaganda win for Hamas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">&#8220;What a brave and enlightened woman, the kind we thought they no longer make in Israel, and what clumsy handling of the event,&#8221; he writes. &#8220;The truth is you don&#8217;t need to be a PR expert to know <strong>you can&#8217;t have a press conference like this live on TV.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8220;There&#8217;s no doubt that Lifshitz&#8217;s statement could have been managed better,&#8221; tweets Channel 12 reporter Daphna Liel<\/strong>, who adds that her descriptions were still pretty shocking. &#8220;Anyone sane should understand that medical attention she was given was intended to keep their bargaining chips alive and not from the kindness of their hearts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The channel&#8217;s Dana Weiss calls the press conference a &#8220;disaster,&#8221; noting the lack of state intervention in managing her appearances.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>ToI&#8217;s Tal Schnieder takes aim at the hospital&#8217;s spokesperson, who put Lifshitz in front of the cameras, rather than just her family members, and then bragged about his ability to get a &#8220;wow factor&#8221; for journalists on Instagram.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">&#8220;From a professional point of view, this is an embarrassment for the hospital,&#8221; she writes on X.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;embarrassment&#8221; in this case is that Lifshitz was allowed to tell the public the truth.<\/p>\n<p>If these &#8220;PR experts&#8221; got their hands on her, we&#8217;d be hearing about how they raped elderly women atop a pile of dead babies and chopped their heads off for a laugh while screaming &#8220;Allahu Akbar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Contrast the way Lifshitz&#8217;s describes the treatment of captives under Hamas with the way <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/VLaRF\">Palestinians taken captive by Israel described how they were treated in a shocking story released last week by the Israeli media outlet Haaretz<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<div id=\"attachment_274896\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/israel-abuses-palestinian-captives.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-274896\" class=\"wp-image-274896\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/israel-abuses-palestinian-captives.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"503\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-274896\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.informationliberation.com\/?id=64074\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contradicting earlier media reports about Hamas \u2018beating captives\u2019 and \u2018beheading babies\u2019, the Times of Israel describes the released captives press conference as a \u2018disaster for Israel\u2019 and a \u2018PR win for Hamas\u2019  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":274897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274899,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274895\/revisions\/274899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/274897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}