Special forces reported that there has been a successful rescue mission that has found and saved two hostages from Gaza, Fernando Simon Marman (60) and Norberto Louis Har (70).
By Israel National News
IDF soldiers rescued hostages Fernando Merman and Louis Herr in a nighttime operation in Rafah overnight Sunday, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said.
Both were kidnapped by Hamas terrorists from Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak on October 7.
They were evacuated by helicopter to Sheba Hospital at Tel Hashomer and their condition is good.
Earlier, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said that the IDF conducted a series of strikes on terror targets in the area of Shaboura, located in the Rafah area in the southern Gaza Strip.
The strikes have concluded, the statement said. It provided no further details.
The Gaza “ministry of health”, which is controlled by Hamas, claimed that at least 52 people were killed in the Israeli strikes.
Palestinian Arab sources reported that the attacks targeted houses and mosques in the area.
On Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with US President Joe Biden in a phone conversation that lasted approximately 45 minutes.
The White House said following the conversation that Biden “reaffirmed his view that a military operation in Rafah should not proceed without a credible and executable plan for ensuring the safety of and support for the more than one million people sheltering there.”
Earlier, the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs published an official announcement in which it voiced its opposition to an expected Israeli operation in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
“The Arab Republic of Egypt stresses its complete rejection of the statements issued by high-level officials of the Israeli government regarding the intention of the Israeli forces to launch a military operation in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, warning of the dire consequences of such an action, especially in light of the risks it entails of exacerbating the humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip,” the statement said.
“Egypt calls for the necessity of uniting all international and regional efforts to prevent the targeting of the Palestinian city of Rafah, which now houses approximately 1.4 million Palestinians who were displaced there because it is the last safe area in the Gaza Strip. It considers targeting Rafah, and Israel’s continued policy of obstructing access to humanitarian aid, as an actual contribution to implementing the policy of displacing the Palestinian people and liquidating their cause, in clear violation of the provisions of international law, international humanitarian law, and the relevant resolutions of the Security Council and the United Nations General Assembly,” it added.
May Hashem continue to provide miracles!
The daughter of one of these men was in NY recently, Chabad of 5 Towns took them to the Ohel. After that they came back to Israel and opened igros kodesh to a letter to Shazar in 5722 where the Rebbe writes that he heard that a certain askan and his colleagues were released from prison!
Tzahal called the rescue operation “Golden Hand” יד זהב but it’s clearly the Rebbe’s hand at work, B”H!
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