(17 Jan 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
London, UK – 17 January 2025
1. Wide of Sharone Lifschitz looking at photos of her 84-year-old father Oded Lifshitz who has been held hostage by Hamas in Gaza
2. Close of photos
3. Close of Lifschitz
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Sharone Lifschitz, daughter of Oded being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza:
"I have to say that we are prepared. I think if my father, you know, there’s almost a calmness if I know he didn’t suffer for 469 days. It’s really hard to imagine an old man having to endure this. But I so wait for the women and then the men that are alive to return."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Tel Aviv, Israel – 24 October 2023
5. Yocheved, Sharone’s mother, speaking to media after being freed by Hamas
6. Lifschitz speaking
ASSOCIATED PRESS
London, UK – 17 January 2025
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Sharone Lifschitz, daughter of Oded being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza:
"And on the 7th of October, they were in the safe room. And my father was shot in the hand and was lying at the edge of his kingdom. That’s when my mom saw him last and she was taken over on a motorbike and then the terrorists burned the house down. They put gas into the house and it burned and it burned and it burned until everything they ever owned, everything, was ashes."
8. Close of photo of Sharone and Yocheved
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Sharone Lifschitz, daughter of Oded being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza:
"We wait. We hold our nerve. We keep calm. We embrace those that are returning. We do all we can to make sure that the fanatics on both sides are unable to destroy this deal. We’ve been there before, the fear that the fanatics will push one of the sides back into fighting is the most, our most pressing struggle."
10. Close of banner with Lifschitz’s father’s photo saying "Bring Him Home Now"
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Sharone Lifschitz, daughter of Oded being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza:
"So many people were killed that should have been alive if they did not sabotage this deal since a year. Their place.. you know I hope that they know they will have to live with that for the rest of their life. And we will remind them, we remind them of those the action killed, the suffering and the suffering on both sides their action brought about. We have, you know, last night I saw footage of child soldiers in Gaza. That breaks my heart, you know, this is our next generation. We have to make sure that it isn’t the fanatics that bring up the next generation of this region so that this region has a chance. All of us that believe in sustainable future must remember that first the hostages and a cease fire. Then build a better, my parents spent a lifetime working towards a better ideal."
12. Wide of Lifschitz
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Sharone Lifschitz, daughter of Oded being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza:
14. Wide of banner
STORYLINE:
Sharone Lifschitz is well aware the odds are against her 84-year-old father.
As one of the oldest hostages taken by Hamas, Oded Lifshitz would be among the first to be released under a ceasefire deal expected to begin Sunday.
But after 469 days of captivity in Gaza, she can only hope he survived.
"We have learned so much about trauma, about losing loved ones," the London-based artist said. "I have to say that we are prepared."
About 100 hostages remain unaccounted for in Gaza. Family and friends are still waiting for news.
The militants took a quarter of the community’s 400 residents hostage that day, including her parents.
"My father was shot in the hand and was lying at the edge of his kingdom," Lifschitz said.
Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/
You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/b69a44c3d96041c38e6f4dd9c9cbf78c
Author: AP Archive
Go to Source
News post in January 22, 2025, 9:05 pm.
Visit Our Sponsor’s:
News Post In – News
