2023-12-16 18:46:24
“Al-Sharq Al-Awsat” reveals details of the Israeli operations to attempt to free the hostages
Field sources in the Palestinian armed factions in the Gaza Strip revealed new and exciting details regarding the operations carried out by Israeli special forces to free Israeli detainees in the Gaza Strip, whether alive or dead.
The sources told Asharq Al-Awsat that Israel uses small special forces made up of “Asta’rabists” to carry out attacks on sites they believe contain living prisoners. These forces also search specific cemeteries for the bodies of Israelis believed to be buried there.
The sources spoke regarding 3 operations, one of which succeeded in freeing a female detainee, the second failed, and the third in which the forces were able to extract the bodies of Israelis from one of the graves. She added that the operation in which the Israeli forces succeeded was the one in which they were able to recover the soldier, Uri Mehedesh, and it coincided with the night of the start of the expanded ground operation in the Gaza Strip on October 27, and was carried out quickly and accurately, amid heavy air cover, and military forces were on alert near The northwestern border of the sector.
A photo distributed by the Al-Qassam Brigades of Mia Lemberg, the hostage who was released by Hamas fighters, with her dog on November 28 (Archyde.com)
Editing the soldier Mehidish
The sources also revealed to Asharq Al-Awsat that the special operation took place inside a house on Hamid Street in the Beach Camp, west of Gaza City, when a special Israeli force infiltrated the camp, using an ambulance with two armed members of the force inside. They stormed the house and shot two of the captives. While a third managed to survive, they freed the Israeli prisoner from the house, and returned her to Israel.
Field investigations conducted by Hamas revealed that the force infiltrated from the axis of the northwestern area of the Gaza Strip near Al-Atatra and from there to the coastal camp of Al-Shati, and from other roads in the camp and its surroundings, it returned to the coastal road and from there to the location of its forces’ concentration.
According to investigations, the perpetrators of the operation from the Israeli force spoke Arabic fluently, and when they arrived at the house, they were carrying pistols with a silencer and attacked the place. They immediately opened fire on those inside the house, then introduced themselves to the captive, and took her to the northwestern border with the town of Beit Lahia.
The sources added that a vehicle bearing a Palestinian registration plate was accompanying the force to intervene in any emergency, while warplanes flew intensely and led an air cover operation by launching mock raids in the vicinity of the area, and launching real raids in the vicinity of the Al-Rimal neighborhood and other nearby areas.
About two hours following the success of the operation, warplanes bombed the house in which the Israeli prisoner was located, and also carried out a violent fire belt in the area of Hamid Street and its surroundings. According to the sources, the prisoner was with a small armed group, and she was transferred to the house that witnessed her liberation in order to hand her over to members of the “Al-Qassam Brigades.” However, Israeli intelligence was able to monitor these movements and succeeded in reaching her a few hours following she was handed over to the “Al-Qassam Brigades,” and before That the “Brigades” succeed in transferring them to another safe place.
At the time, the “Al-Qassam Brigades” had denied, through its spokesman, through an audio recording, Israel’s story regarding the liberation of the female soldier, stressing that if that had actually happened, the Israeli female soldier might have been detained by parties unrelated to the “Brigades.”
Two Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip (Archyde.com)
Failed operation
As for the failed operation, it took place at dawn on December 8, when a special Israeli force infiltrated the Nuseirat camp, in the middle of the Gaza Strip, towards the location of one of the captured Israeli soldiers. This operation caused the killing and wounding of a number of members of the implementing unit and a group of his captors. In addition to the captured soldier whose release is intended.
The incident also occurred in a small house adjacent to a school in the camp, where there are thousands of displaced people. According to the sources, the force was able to infiltrate through two civilian vehicles bearing a Palestinian registration plate, and they arrived at the doorstep of the house before being discovered by Al-Qassam members, who clashed with them amid an intense flight of Israeli warplanes.
As the clashes escalated for more than 40 minutes, the force was able to enter the targeted location and attempt to free the soldier, and the Israeli army was forced to involve warplanes, which bombed the area’s surroundings to prevent the special force from being besieged by any additional Palestinian militants, especially following a number of members of the force were injured. It withdraws from the place, amidst violent gunfire, towards the coastal area of Nuseirat.
The Al-Qassam Brigades said, at dawn that day, that its forces thwarted an attempt by an Israeli special force while it was trying to advance to liberate a prisoner and clashed with it, which led to the killing and wounding of the force members, and the military aircraft intervened and bombed the place with a series of raids to cover their withdrawal.
Israeli soldiers during the ground operation in the Gaza Strip (Archyde.com)
The captured soldier is killed
The Al-Qassam Brigades indicated at the time that the clash led to the killing of the captured soldier, Sa’ar Baruch (25 years old), who carried ID number 207775032, and the control of the weapon of an Israeli soldier and the communication device of the attacking force. At that time, Israel admitted that two soldiers were seriously injured, and the mission to rescue the captured soldier had failed.
The sources told Asharq Al-Awsat that many Israeli raids failed following it became clear that there were no detainees, and some of them were unable to reach the targeted sites. Israel is trying to reach its prisoners instead of making exchange deals, and is also searching for any possible bodies in Gaza.
The sources said that the Israeli army succeeded in finding some bodies by exhuming bodies in graves and conducting examinations on them. The sources confirmed that the army exhumed bodies from public cemeteries and temporary graves opened during the war in some squares, and they were numbered by the Palestinian factions to identify them when needed and hand them over upon completion of any exchange deal in this regard.
The sources added: “As a result of follow-up or information, the army was able to find the bodies of its detainees in graves from which more than one body was exhumed to confirm their authenticity, including the bodies of Palestinians, and this is a procedure that continues to this day.”
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