Oded Lifshitz used to be 83 years previous when he used to be ripped from his house in Kibbutz Nir Ounces at the side of his spouse, Yocheved, all the way through Hamas’ attacks against Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Yocheved returned to Israel alive in October 2023 and has been advocating for different hostages’ unlock ever since. On Feb. 20, 2025, Oded returned to Israel in a coffin. His circle of relatives, alternatively, has now not given up hope for individuals who stay in Gaza.
Daniel Lifshitz, Oded and Yocheved’s grandson, instructed Fox Information Virtual that, whilst the hostages who’ve returned have introduced some mild again to Kibbutz Nir Ounces, not anything can in point of fact be finished till the entire hostages are again. As of the time of this writing, 13 hostages taken from Nir Ounces are nonetheless in Gaza, and now not they all are alive.
Daniel Lifshitz speaks about his grandfather all the way through the funeral for Oded Lifshitz on Feb. 25, 2025 in Nir Ounces, Israel. (Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Pictures)
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When talking to Fox Information Virtual, Daniel described his overdue grandfather as a “warrior of peace,” explaining that whilst Oded served in 4 wars, he additionally fought for the rights of minorities.
Oded and Yocheved had been peace activists who helped Palestinian pediatric most cancers sufferers from Gaza pass into Israel for chemotherapy. Within the eulogy she delivered at her husband’s funeral, Yocheved mentioned their activism and mentioned they “had been hit by means of a horrible assault by means of the ones we helped at the different aspect,” consistent with the Times of Israel’s translation.
Daniel defined that his grandmother felt betrayed now not by means of Hamas or Islamic Jihad, however by means of Palestinian civilians who she and her husband had spent years serving to.
“After October 7, they did not — we did not see the Palestinians going to protest out of doors towards Hamas, going to protests for the discharge of the hostages, which they know if they’d unlock the entire hostage is that might be additionally the top of the warfare,” Daniel instructed Fox Information Virtual. “And so they want to display that they do not want Hamas, and that’s the place my grandmother she feels in point of fact tremendous betrayal as it’s for whom we attempt.”
Footage of the Bibas circle of relatives and Oded Lifshitz, 84, who had been abducted all the way through the fatal October 7, 2023, assault by means of Hamas after which killed, are displayed subsequent to candles within the eating room in Kibbutz Nir Ounces, after their our bodies had been passed over to Israel underneath the phrases of a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, at the day of Lifshitz’s funeral, in Kibbutz Nir Ounces, Israel Feb. 25, 2025. (REUTERS/Amir Cohen)
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Oded’s frame used to be returned along the ones of Ariel and Kfir Bibas. The men’ mom, Shiri Bibas, used to be meant to be within the fourth coffin, however her stays weren’t there when the coffin arrived in Israel. Her frame used to be returned two days later.
“… their go back in combination is symbolizing the failure of the global group for me as a result of in the ones vehicles got here a 9-month-old child, the one child held hostage on this planet with an 83-year-old great-grandfather, the one great-grandfather well being hostage global,” Daniel instructed Fox Information Virtual.
Daniel Lifshitz walks preserving his grandmother’s launched hostage Yocheved Lifshitz’s hand, all the way through the “World Rally – United We Carry Them House” rally in Hostage Sq. on Would possibly 18th, 2024 in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Pictures)
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Daniel grew up with Shiri’s sister, Dana, who instructed Fox Information Virtual that she is sort of a sister to him.
When requested in regards to the variations between the Biden management and the Trump management’s dealing with of the location, Daniel instructed Fox Information Virtual that Trump’s staff is “extra inventive.”
“If something doesn’t paintings, they don’t proceed. They are attempting to convey every other answer,” Daniel instructed Fox Information Virtual.
Within the face of tragedy, the Lifshitz circle of relatives has refused to surrender hope that the rest hostages, alive and useless, will sooner or later go back house to Israel. Daniel additionally hopes his grandmother will be capable of get some relaxation as soon as she is aware of the hostages are house.
