VIDEO: Freed Israeli hostage Yocheved Lifshitz says Hamas gently 'looked after all their needs'

Yocheved Lifshitz, an Israeli woman who was taken hostage by Hamas militants said that she was treated with care by the abductors in a new video after her release on Tuesday.

The freed hostage Yocheved Lifshitz is at a hospital in Tel Aviv.

She spoke in Hebrew, but her daughter Sharone Lifschitz translated.

Her mother was placed on the back of a motorbike with her head and legs lying on opposite sides.

As Lifshitz was being led into Gaza, she was "taken through ploughed fields" and struck by Hamas fighters.

A "spiderweb" of underground tunnels forced the hostages to traverse for several km on soggy terrain.

"I went through hell," she said.

However, Hamas militants treated hostages "gently" in captivity and "looked after our needs", Lifshitz said. They were allowed to wash and eat.

"They gave us pitta bread, hard cheese, some low fat cream cheese and cucumber and that was our food for the entire day."

She the group seemed "really prepared" and it appeared the operation had been planned for a long time.

Prior to their early-morning attacks on October 7th, Lifshitz criticised the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) for not taking the threat posed by Hamas seriously enough.

She asserted that the militant group had issued a warning weeks earlier by sending "fire-filled balloons and setting fire to our fields."

"The IDF didn't take that seriously."