Sharon Lifshitz
Appearances
Global News Podcast
Talks between Israel and Hamas continue in Qatar
My name is Sharon Lifshitz. I am the daughter of Yochevet and Oded Lifshitz, both were taken hostage from Kibbutz Niros on the 7th of October. My mom returned after 17 days. My father is still held hostage for 465 days. My father, 84, is somewhere in Chaniunas, about two miles from our home. I can feel him there. I don't know if he's dead or alive. I don't know if he's being looked after.
Global News Podcast
Talks between Israel and Hamas continue in Qatar
I don't know if he has received a hug in 465 days. I know we're desperate to have him back.
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Israel says Gaza ceasefire will end unless Hamas frees hostages by Saturday
I think there's a lot of talk and big talk and very scary talk. But I think we have to keep ourselves, to brace ourselves and to wait and see what happens. There's a lot of big egos and there's a kind of negotiation tactic. And I hope that's what it is. I hope both sides want to continue the deal. And actually... You know, we want all the hostages back home.
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Israel says Gaza ceasefire will end unless Hamas frees hostages by Saturday
The reports from those that come back, the conditions they are held in are petrifying, and their capacity for survival is diminishing all the time. They should all come back, as I'm saying, but for that to happen, we need a ceasefire, we need a withdrawal from Gaza, we need an exchange of prisoners for hostages.
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Israel says Gaza ceasefire will end unless Hamas frees hostages by Saturday
There's a very large majority of Israeli public that want this deal to come through, that want the return of hostages in return to a ceasefire and complete withdrawal from Gaza. Just follow the wishes, not just of me and the hostage families, but of the vast majority of the Israeli public. Get that deal completed. It's the most important thing you can do in your life.
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Israel says Gaza ceasefire will end unless Hamas frees hostages by Saturday
We have to move on to make a sustainable future for the people of the region.
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Erdogan calls Turkey protests 'evil' as unrest continues
My name is Sharon Akoth. I was a mentor, a facilitator, group therapy for girls. It was on 27th January and I found an email that we stop operations. I was so disturbed. I was so stressful because I was imagining how I was going to cope with my life because my mom is relying on me. I have rent to pay. I have an ailing father who is relying on me.
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Erdogan calls Turkey protests 'evil' as unrest continues
I was wondering how I was going to cope with that situation. I have fees to pay for my child and I was wondering if I'll be able to do that.
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Canada's PM Justin Trudeau resigns
I think I always try to dampen my enthusiasm because the chances of my father are slim. He was frail 458 days ago. I also thought my mom did not survive and then she just emerged from the ground. So I hold hope.
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Canada's PM Justin Trudeau resigns
My father was injured on the 7th of October in his hand and in his legs. My mum thought he was dead, but when the hostages came back in the first deal in late November 23, it came true that he was alive, that he was with another woman from my kibbutz in the same room, that he was seen on the first day by another hostage that returned. So we know he was alive to begin with.
Global News Podcast
Canada's PM Justin Trudeau resigns
We know he looked for my mum. We know... He was not in a good condition and we know his condition was deteriorating.
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Canada's PM Justin Trudeau resigns
The vast majority of the Israeli public is behind the idea of finishing the war against what is often being people assume here. And we are trying to do all we can to push on the incoming Trump administration. I believe that that is our biggest leverage. I know that the Qataris are back in the negotiating table. It feels that there is a real push
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Canada's PM Justin Trudeau resigns
push for it, and hopefully there will be enough in it for the Prime Minister of Israel to finally, and far too late for many people who lost their life as a result, to say, yes, we will withdraw from Gaza, we will go for a final deal.
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Canada's PM Justin Trudeau resigns
History shows that you can't absolutely eliminate an organization that is fanatic, ideological. For Israel to stay there in order to keep fighting this fraction and this fraction of Hamas actually undermines the achievement in this war. I don't agree with this war. I think we should have gone to exchange of hostages at the very beginning. My father would have been home.
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Canada's PM Justin Trudeau resigns
Many people we have buried over the last year would have been home. Our loss is so devastating. We know some of the hostages are dead. We are really needing to get them back. Hamas is a bigger problem, like Al-Qaeda is. Israel has alliances in the Middle East. We have Egypt. We have the P.A., These are forces that should come in and start running Gaza. It seems that Hamas agreed to that.
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Canada's PM Justin Trudeau resigns
The people of the Middle East, the people of the region, the people who believe in the sanctity of life, we want a ceasefire. And absolutely, Hamas should be eliminated, but it cannot be eliminated by war.