'I shook his hand because they treated us very nicely': Freed Israeli hostage, 85, explains her gesture of peace towards Hamas captors after being put 'through hell'

Footage released on Monday evening showed Yochved Lifshitz, 85, and Nurit Cooper, 79, being handed over to the Red Cross at the Rafah crossing by black-clad masked Hamas gunmen. As she's about to leave, Yochved turns to one of the masked gunmen, reaching out her hand and offers a simple blessing to him: 'Shalom'. 'Shalom' is the Hebrew word for peace and harmony, and is used by Jewish people to mean both hello and goodbye