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“They have been physically and mentally abused for a long time,” a doctor who treated them said.
A unilateral deal to free the five Americans being held by the terror group is a “very real option,” according to senior U.S. officials.
The IAF struck underground infrastructure near Deir al-Balah, while Israeli forces operated against Hamas structures and tunnels in central Gaza.
Brig. Gen. Avi Rosenfeld accepted responsibility for his part in the security collapse on Oct. 7, 2023.
Such a scenario would relieve the Islamist group of responsibility for governance and allow it to rebuilt its military-terrorist power.
They were reportedly killed along with other family members during Israel’s Nuseirat rescue operation.
But sorrow abounds for the scores still in Hamas’s hands.
Yossi Jan was found unresponsive at his Kfar Saba home by officials sent to inform him of his son Almog’s rescue.
Arnon Zamora was “a hero of Israel, a lover of the land and a protector,” says the Israel Defense Forces.
U.N. special rapporteur Francesca Albanese accused Israel of “genocidal intent turned into action.”
The prime minister met with the four rescued hostages and their families at Sheba Medical Center, praising the soldiers who carried out the operation.
The military’s growing control of Gaza created conditions for the daring daylight hostage rescue in Nuseirat • Terrorists fired waves of RPGs at the extraction force from civilian areas.
