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The army of Israel announced on Monday morning that two hostages taken by Hamas during the October 7 attacks had been rescued in a nighttime operation in the southern city of Rafah. Gaza strip.
He indicated in a statement that “in a joint operation by the IDF (army), ISA (Shin Bet security agency) and the Israeli police at night in Rafatwo Israeli hostages were rescued, Fernando Simão Marman (60 years old) and Louis Har (70)”, and that both are in “good medical condition”.
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He highlighted that They were kidnapped “by the terrorist organization Hamas on October 7 in Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak.”
“Both are in good medical condition and They were transferred to Sheba Tel Hashomer hospital for evaluation”, adds the statement.
During the October 7 attacks, Hamas fighters took around 250 hostages, according to an AFP report based on official Israeli figures. About 130 remain in Gaza, but 29 are believed dead, Israel said.
In response to the attacks, Israel launched a relentless offensive Link which left at least 28,176 dead, most of them women and children, according to the Ministry of Health in the territory controlled by Hamas.
Dozens of hostages were released in November during a week-long trucein which more than 200 Palestinian prisoners were released from Israeli prisons.
New talks were held in Cairo in search of a truce.
The armed arm of Hamas claimed on Sunday that two hostages were killed and eight were injured in the latest Israeli bombings, a version that AFP was unable to verify.
Source: Elcomercio
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