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Early Monday morning, two freed hostages arrive at a hospital on the outskirts of Tel Aviv. The two men, aged sixty and seventy, are in good physical condition, according to the Israeli military.
Daniel Hagari, military spokesman
»We brought Louis and Fernando home this evening. In a joint rescue operation by the Israel Defense Forces, Israel Security Service and a police SWAT team, we rescued Louis Hare and Fernando Marman, who were kidnapped by Hamas on October 7th. It was a complex rescue operation under fire in the heart of Rafah, based on sensitive intelligence information.
According to the terrorist organization Hamas, more than a hundred people were killed in the Israeli air strikes on the city of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip on Monday night. The attacks reportedly hit 14 houses and three mosques. The information cannot be independently verified. And it is currently unclear whether the attacks were part of the Israeli military's announced offensive. More than a million refugees from other parts of the Palestinian territory are stranded in Rafah because of the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip.
Meanwhile, the Jordanian King Abdullah II is said to have personally dropped relief supplies from a transport plane over the Gaza Strip in recent days. The video spread rapidly throughout the Arab world via Instagram and other social media. It was not the first time that Jordan delivered aid to the area.
Meanwhile, Israeli soldiers in Gaza City presented an explosive discovery at the weekend: Together with the domestic secret service, they discovered a 700-meter-long and 18-meter-deep Hamas tunnel. And this is under the headquarters of the UN aid organization for Palestinian refugees. The army said a data center was found in one of the rooms.
Ido, military spokesman:
“This is one of the command centers. A Hamas intelligence unit was stationed here and they organized the fighting from here.”
Those responsible for the UN aid agency said they knew nothing about the tunnel. Twelve employees are suspected of being involved in Hamas's unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7th. In response to the allegations, countries such as Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Canada, New Zealand and the USA announced that they would temporarily stop their payments to the aid organization