'I constantly have the images of what happened repeating in my mind.' 'I went through a nightmare we couldn't have imagined,' she said. The 85-year-old added that the entire experience was unimaginable. 'They killed and kidnapped both old and young with no distinction.' 'They attacked our houses,' Yocheved Lifshitz, one of the freed hostages, said. Hamas says they did it for humanitarian reasons, but the women's husbands, who were also taken hostage during the attack on Israel on Oct. Monday night, Hamas released two elderly female hostages. Those raids have been seen as not only aimed at military targets but as reconnaissance missions to locate some of the 220 people believed to be held hostage by Hamas. The IDF also confirmed that it made targeted commando raids inside Gaza. The IDF said early Tuesday it had launched 400 air strikes over the past day. The Israel Defense Forces said on Tuesday that it has escalated air strikes on Gaza, as bombings could be seen from the Israel-Gaza border.
