Gaza war: Israeli army announces release of enemy in Gaza in “complex operation”

The judge was able to escape from his captors inside a tunnel in Gaza before the military forces could save him, according to the Israeli newspaper “Haaretz”.

The Forum for Abducted and Disappeared Israeli Families announced that the judge, the judge, “freed himself from the grip of Hamas and fled to the Israeli military forces.”

The forum also described the release of the judge as “amazing news, and a ray of light in the middle of the darkness for the families of the guards and the people of Israel.”

The forum said: “Reaching an agreement is the only way to bring back the remaining 108 hostages – the living for rehabilitation and the dead for a proper burial.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant said on the X website: “The operation was part of a bold and courageous operation by the Israeli army carried out deep in the Gaza Strip.”

He said that this operation “is added to the series of measures implemented by the Israeli army that will bring us closer to achieving the goals of this war. “

“I would like to emphasize and reiterate that Israel is committed to taking every opportunity to return the enemies to their homes in Israel,” Gallant said.

The Israeli army spokesman for the Arab media, Avichay Adraee, also announced on the X website that “the kidnapped person was freed by members of the Marine Commando Unit, the 401st Brigade, Engineering Unit Yahalom, and members of the Shin Bet under the commander of the 162nd Division in a complex liberation operation in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.”

He said: “The condition of the abducted person is good and he is being transferred to continue medical examinations at Soroka Hospital, where his family members have been informed of the news and have been taken in with the military authorities.”

The spokesman of the Israeli army, Daniel Hagari, indicated that the Israeli forces are working to return all the abductees, and 108 of them, including women and men, are still in custody in Gaza.

When asked about rumors that the judge was able to escape from his captors and went on to the towns around the Gaza Strip, Hagari denied, saying: “The forces saved we have the person who was kidnapped while he was alive from a tunnel in the south of Gaza.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office also announced that it had made a phone call with the “free kidnapper and congratulated him.”

Netanyahu said he is working to return the abducted people through negotiations and rescue operations, which will require a military presence in the field, as he said.

“We congratulate the security forces on the complex and successful operation to return Farhan al-Qadi from the captivity of Hamas,” said Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid on stage X, after a meeting by Netanyahu.

He said: “We will not be able to return 108 evacuees in a special operation. There is no time. We must make a deal and return them home now.”

A video showed several members of his family rushing into the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba to visit him.

This comes when Israel’s Chief of Staff, General Herzi Halevy, concluded a session to assess the situation with the Commander of the Southern Region, the Commander of the Operations Authority, the Commander of the Intelligence Authority, Major General Nitzan Alon, and the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, after releasing the kidnapped Farhan al-Qadi, and agreed to continue the work of the forces in Al-Maidan on his way to visit the Jordan Valley, according to Adraee.

He quoted General Halevy as saying: “We are doing everything we can to rescue all the abductees. The army and Shin Bet forces are showing courage, determination and initiative in this operation.” – folded in the field.

The President of Israel, Isaac Herzog, also congratulated the Israel X army website, the Internal Security Service, and all the security services on the success of the hostile liberation operation and said : “I congratulate his family on his return a moment of joy for the State of Israel and Israeli society as a whole.”

The judge is the eighth enemy that Israeli forces have been able to free alive since the start of the war in Gaza.

Israeli media reported that the judge is from the “Bedouin diaspora,” a father of 11 children, lives in the southern region of Rahat, and has worked for several years as a security guard in Kibbutz Magin, near the border between Israel and Gaza, where he worked as a security guard. he was kidnapped 10 months ago.

The Israeli army launched a military operation in Gaza aimed, according to it, at eliminating Hamas in response to an unprecedented attack it launched on southern Israel on October 7. in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken, according to Israeli government data.

Since then, Israeli military operations have resulted in the deaths of more than 40,430 people in Gaza, according to a statement by the Gaza Ministry of Health.