After the Israeli Army announced this Monday that, within the framework of its incursions in the Gaza Strip, it managed to rescue Ferdinand Simon Marman, 60 years old, and Luis Has, 70 years old, two Argentinian-Israeli who had been taken hostage after the attack by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) details of the operation were known in the Gaza Strip.
The liberation took place in a joint operation by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), he Intelligence and National Security Service (Shin Bet) and the Police. “The security forces will continue working by all possible means to recover the kidnapped people,” the statement said.
The Israeli Army spokesman in Arabic, Avichai Adrai, said that they completed “a heroic, qualitative and successful liberation operation” for two kidnapped by Hamas from Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak. “The agents secretly arrived at the target location and carried out a very complex operation inside a building where they were being held,” according to what they said.
In a message shared on the official Mossad account they gave greater precision of the operation military, which they said had been in the works “for a long period of time.” ”They waited until the conditions were met,” they commented.
The Israeli secret service described the operation as “very complex” to reach the destination in Rafah and they said it took about an hour. Also, they stated that “many terrorists died tonight.” In the same report spread on the social network
The forces secretly arrived at the target around 1:00 in the morning and carried out the operation in a building complex, on the second floor, where the kidnapped people were. Adrai indicated that there were armed men inside the residential apartment. “The forces broke into the building and managed to free it, which caused clashes,” said the military spokesman.
“Inside the house there were three terrorists guarding the kidnapped people. “The forces stormed the building with a hot blast using a charge, because the door was locked,” the Mossad added.
Finally, they indicated that the Israeli Air Force launched “a wave of attacks against dozens of targets belonging” to a Hamas-affiliated brigade with the aim of allowing the agents to reach the landing strip that had been established to pick up the hostages. and take them back to Israel.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant monitored the operation and called it “awesome”. Furthermore, he thanked the IDF and the Shin Bet for “quality execution.”
Who are the freed hostages?
Luis Har is Clara Marman’s partner, the two Argentines met in Israel and lived in separate houses. However, on the day of the attack he was with Clara in Nir Yitzhak, one of the most affected kibbutz. At 70 years old, he planned to come to Argentina to visit friends and family in the country. He already had the tickets.
His brother-in-law is Fernando Marman. Clara’s brother, 60, lives in Israel and had gone to spend the weekend with her at Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak, located less than 4 kilometers from the border with the Gaza Strip. It is known that he arrived at the local shelter in the midst of the fierce attacks with the entire family group, but they were found by the extremists.