Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, who was released from Hamas captivity last month, revealed in an interview released Wednesday that she met Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar in a tunnel during her time in Gaza — and was not afraid to tell him what she thought.

“Sinwar was with us three-four days after we got there,” Lifshitz told the Davar news outlet. “I asked him how he wasn’t ashamed of himself, to do such a thing to people who for years supported peace. He didn’t answer. He was quiet.” …

At a press conference a day after she was released, Lifshitz recounted that her abductors beat her with sticks as they kidnapped her to Gaza on the back of a motorcycle. Once there, she said, she and others were taken through “a spiderweb” of tunnels, and forced to walk through them “on wet ground, with damp all the time.” Once in captivity, she said the kidnappers treated her well.