2024-02-13 20:53:00
Israel revealed the precise moment of the rescue of the Argentine hostages in the south of the Gaza Strip. In a shocking video released by the Israeli defense forces, you can see how the troops find the whereregardings of Ferdinand Simon Marman y Luis Hastwo of the 132 Israeli citizens who remain kidnapped by Hamas since October 7.
The country led by Benjamin Netanyahu continues its ground offensive in southern Gaza to “dismantle” Hamas and find the leaders of the armed wing of the Islamist group. In recent days they focused on the siege of the populous city of Rafahclose to Egypt and home to one and a half million displaced people from the entire Palestinian enclave.
“Only continued military pressure, until total victory, will achieve the release of all our hostages,” Netanyahu published in X, following the rescue.
The operation to free the Argentine hostages
The release of the hostages of Argentine origin took place in a joint operation by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the National Intelligence and Security Service (Shin Bet) and the local police.
In the images released by the Jewish News Agency, you can see how Israeli defense and security agents carry out the explosion of the door of the shelter where they were held hostage. Ferdinand Simon Marman60 years old, and Louis Has70 years old.
“They are fine and healthy,” one of the agents noted, as recorded in another of the rescue videos released by the Israel Defense Forces through their social networks.
The virtual world, meanwhile, was flooded with content regarding the release of the two hostages who left Gaza by helicopter following 129 days in captivity, and were taken to hospitals in Israeli territory. “What a joy,” said Luis Har, as recorded in another video.
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How was the operation
According to the Israeli army spokesman in Arabic, Avichai Adrai, the operation to free the two Argentine hostages from Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak was “heroic, qualitative and successful.” “The agents secretly arrived at the target location and carried out a very complex operation inside a building where they were being held,” he explained.
From the official account of the Mossad, Israel’s powerful intelligence agency, they stated that the operation in Rafahin southern Gaza, was orchestrated over “a long period of time”, waiting for “the conditions to be met” so that it might be carried out.
“They were in the hands of Hamas in the Rafah area. They were rescued by troops from Yamam (Special Police Unit), Shabak (Intelligence Services), Shayetet 13 (Marine Command), in an operation that was worked on for several weeks and until now the conditions were not in place to execute it,” explained Daniel Hagari, head of the Israeli army spokesmen.
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According to him, the troops broke into the building with the explosion of a bomb and covering fire from the vicinity of the building and from the air. “During the rescue, terrorists fired at the fighters and we attacked Hamas targets from the air, allowing our soldiers to leave the building,” he added.
Furthermore, they described the raid as “very complex”, having lasted approximately an hour, and that only one Israeli agent was “slightly injured.” “The security forces will continue working by all possible means to recover the kidnapped”The Israeli security and defense institutions reported in a statement.
The recently released Israeli hostages are Fernando Marman and Luis Har, both born in Argentina and belonging to the same family. Both were kidnapped on October 7 along with Luis’s partner and Fernando’s sister, Clara Marman (62); her sister Gabriela Leimberg (59), and Gabriela’s daughter, Mia (17), who had been released on November 28 within the framework of the truce negotiated by Qatar and the United States between Hamas and Israel.
The offensive in southern Gaza
Since Monday night, Israel intensified bombing and airstrikes in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, where 1.5 million Palestinians who fled the entire Strip since Israel began the ground offensive are taking refuge.
According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, more than one hundred people died in line with the machine gun attacks in the border area. In addition, at least two mosques and around a dozen homes were the target of the attacks, local authorities indicated.
For his part, the director of the Abu Yousef Al-Najjar Hospital noted that the medical facilities in Rafah “cannot handle the large number of wounded due to the bombing of the Israeli occupation.”
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