{"id":2174513,"date":"2024-02-12T17:50:01","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T22:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israel-rescues-2-hostages-during-airstrike-in-south-gazas-rafah\/"},"modified":"2024-02-12T17:53:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T22:53:34","slug":"israel-rescues-2-hostages-during-airstrike-in-south-gazas-rafah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israel-rescues-2-hostages-during-airstrike-in-south-gazas-rafah\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel saves 2 hostages in airstrike in Rafah, Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fisrael-rescues-2-hostages-during-airstrike-in-south-gazas-rafah%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2174513&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">TEL AVIV, ISRAEL \u2062\u2013 FEBRUARY 12: Hagit Matzliah takes off a kidnapped sign from the store where \u200brescued hostage, Fernando \u200bMarman, worked in Ramat Hasharon on\u2064 February 12, 2024 in Tel Aviv, Israel. The Israeli military says it has rescued two \u2062hostages from captivity in Rafah, \u2062whilst two 21-year\u2062 old IDF soldiers \u2062were killed \u200bin overnight fighting in the Gaza \u200cStrip.\u2062 The IDF has now rescued three hostages through military operations since\u2064 Oct. 7, as PM \u2062Netanyahu faces pressure from relatives of freed \u200bhostages to secure the release\u2062 of the remaining captives through\u2064 negations with Hamas. (Photo by Amir Levy\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OAN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tag\/elizabeth-volberding\">Elizabeth Volberding<br \/><\/a>1:55 PM \u200b\u2013 Monday, February 12, 2024<\/p>\n<p>The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced that they were\u200b able to rescue two \u2062hostages from Hamas imprisonment in Rafah, which is located in\u200d the southern Gaza Strip during an overnight operation.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px; text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Israeli special\u2062 forces\u2062 declared that two hostages \u200dwere\u2063 saved from Hamas captivity in an early morning raid in which the IDF pursued \u2062airstrikes in the southern Gaza city\u2062 of Rafah.<\/p>\n<p>This occurrence signifies the first successful \u2064capture of\u2063 hostages by\u200d the terror organization in \u200cseveral months.<\/p>\n<p>The IDF identified the two hostages that were rescued as Fernando Marman,\u200d 61, and Louis Har, 70, who are both Israeli-Argentinian men.<\/p>\n<p>According to the IDF, both Marman\u2064 and Har were in \u2062good \u200dcondition after\u200d they were saved. The \u200cmission involved disputes with \u200cHamas terrorists and extensive \u2063Israeli airstrikes in Rafah. <\/p>\n<p>The\u2063 two men were \u2063reported \u2062to be in good health and were able to reunite with their families in an Israeli hospital. <\/p>\n<p>Marman\u2063 and Har were initially abducted on October 7<sup>th<\/sup>, 2023, from Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak, when terrorists led by Hamas carried out a\u200d murderous rampage in southern\u2063 Israel, \u2063killing 1,200 people and kidnapping 253.<\/p>\n<p>Since October 7<sup>th<\/sup>, there \u200chave \u2063only been two\u200b such successful operations of this kind. The first \u2063occurred in \u2062late October \u2064when Israeli soldier\u200d Ori\u200c Megidish was \u200drescued. In December 2023, \u2064the IDF tried\u200b to save\u2064 another hostage, however, \u2062he was killed in the process. <\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made \u2063a\u200c statement regarding the\u2064 successful rescue. He stated that\u2064 the mission was \u201camong the most successful rescue operations\u201d in the history of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>On\u200b Monday around 1 a.m., the IDF, the Shin Bet security \u2062agency, and the police\u2019s elite Yamam \u2063counterterrorism unit launched a joint operation in Rafah, an area that Israeli forces had not yet ventured into\u200d during their ground offensive against Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>IDF \u2062Spokesman, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari announced that\u200c Yamam officials \u201ccarried out a very\u2064 complex\u2063 action on the \u200bpremises and\u200c the second floor where\u2064 the hostages were held.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cReaching the target in the heart of\u2064 Rafah \u200dwas very\u2062 complex,\u201d \u200cHagari stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to him,\u200b at 1:49 a.m., the terrorists guarding\u2062 the\u2062 hostages were killed by \u2064the IDF when they broke into the apartment using explosives, and \u200cthey \u201chugged and protected\u2062 Louis and Fernando with their bodies.\u201d <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cThe troops pulled Louis \u2064and Fernando out of the apartment and rescued them under fire, until\u200d they reached the safe zone,\u201d\u2063 Hagari said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Later, the IDF\u2063 revealed footage from the air portraying the rescuers accessing a building and launching strikes near the area.<\/p>\n<p>At 1:50 a.m., Hagari reported that heavy airstrikes were launched against \u200bHamas\u200c terrorists in the vicinity of the rescue operation, and fighting also broke out in a\u2064 number of nearby buildings. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cThere was intense firepower from the air. Fire was started\u2062 from nearby buildings. The Air Force struck\u200c intensively there,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After being extracted,\u2062 Marman and Har\u200b were driven out of Rafah in armored vehicles\u2063 in less than an hour. \u2064They were subsequently placed in a military helicopter and transported to the Sheba Medical\u200d Center in Ramat Gan, where they were examined and found to\u2064 be in good condition.<\/p>\n<p>At\u200c Sheba Medical Center, the two\u2064 rescued hostages had the opportunity to meet with \u2064their families. Marman, a handyman from Kfar Saba, frequently assisted kibbutz members\u200b with any repairs they\u2063 needed. Har is a theater enthusiast and has four children and ten grandchildren.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" data-placeholder-image=\"https:\/\/c3.oann.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/complianz-gdpr\/assets\/images\/placeholders\/twitter-minimal.jpg\" class=\"cmplz-placeholder-element twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Israeli army rescues 2 hostages from southern Gaza:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring a joint IDF,\u2062 ISA,\u2064 and Israel Police operation \u200din Rafah, overnight, two Israeli hostages were rescued, Fernando Simon Marman \u200d(60) and\u2063 Louis Har (70), who were kidnapped by the Hamas terrorist organization on\u2026\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZVd6jCCY9t\">pic.twitter.com\/ZVd6jCCY9t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jotam Confino\u2063 (@mrconfino) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mrconfino\/status\/1756920934613565551?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" async data-cmplz-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Stay informed! 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Subscribe here. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts\">https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"rc-widget-10bad2\" data-rc-widget data-widget-host=\"habitat\" data-endpoint=\"\/\/trends.revcontent.com\" data-widget-id=\"278641\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"dpsp-share-text\" style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"> \t\t \t\tShare this post!\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>There are American\u2019s still held hostage in Gaza. \u2063Bryan Stern of Project DYNAMO says every American should be demanding their release.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Texas officers execute a\u2064 search warrant on \u2064a home as the investigation into a \u2062shooting at a Houston mega-church continues today.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The CEO of Cyviation tells One \u2062America News about the technologies\u200d he\u2019s\u2064 developing to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/police-identify-shooter-who-opened-fire-at-joel-osteens-megachurch-in-houston\/\" title=\"Police identify shooter at Joel Osteen's Houston megachurch\">enhance aircraft\u200c cyber-security<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>After obtaining a massive win in the state of Nevada, the 45th President\u2063 Donald Trump energized the\u2062 crowd in Conway South Carolina. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Nvidia\u00a0briefly surpassed Amazon.com Inc\u00a0in\u2063 market capitalization on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Nvidia\u00a0is building a\u2064 new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-nvidia-chases-30-billion-custom-chip-market-with-new-unit-sources\/\" title=\"Nvidia targets B custom chip market with new unit - sources\">business unit focused<\/a> on\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pinterest-slides-as-smaller-players-battle-for-share-of-ad-market\/\" title=\"Pinterest loses ground as smaller competitors fight for ad market share\">designing bespoke chips<\/a> \u200bfor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/insight-how-production-pressures-plunged-boeing-into-yet-another-crisis\/\" title=\"Boeing's latest crisis: Production pressures revealed\">cloud computing firms<\/a> \u200band \u200dothers.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Pinterest\u00a0dropped \u200cover 10% in a sign that smaller \u2062social media \u2062platforms could be losing the battle\u200d to bigger players for ad dollars.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Google says consumers can pay for better reasoning capabilities as it vies with Microsoft\u00a0to win subscriptions.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \u2063rnrn  <\/p>\n<h2> How does \u2062the recent \u2062successful rescue operation by the IDF\u200c reflect\u2063 the\u200b determination and commitment of\u2062 the Israeli\u2062 military and\u2064 security forces in protecting their citizens<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Title: IDF \u2064Successfully Rescues Hostages from\u2062 Hamas Captivity in Rafah<\/p>\n<p>Introduction:<\/p>\n<p>The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) recently carried out a successful \u200covernight \u2063operation, resulting in the\u200b rescue\u2063 of two hostages who were\u200c being held captive by \u200bHamas in Rafah, located in the\u200d southern Gaza Strip. This operation marks the first successful hostage \u200drescue by the IDF \u200din several \u200bmonths, serving as a significant achievement in the fight against terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the Rescue Operation:<\/p>\n<p>On\u200b Monday, Israeli special forces conducted \u200ba raid on Hamas captivity in Rafah, which involved airstrikes and disputes \u200dwith Hamas terrorists. The hostages, Fernando Marman\u2064 and Louis Har, both Israeli-Argentinian men, were identified by the\u2064 IDF as \u200bbeing in good condition after their rescue. The operation was considered\u2064 among the most successful\u200d in the history of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Background:<\/p>\n<p>Marman and Har were\u2062 initially abducted on October 7th, 2023,\u2062 during a terrorist attack\u200d carried out by\u2062 Hamas in southern Israel. This attack resulted in the deaths of 1,200\u2062 people and\u2062 the\u2062 kidnapping of 253 individuals. Since\u2064 then,\u2063 there\u2063 have been only\u2063 two \u200dsuccessful hostage\u2064 rescues, with \u200bthe first one occurring in late October and the second one \u2062tragically \u2064resulting in the death of the hostage.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s Statement:<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commended the successful rescue operation, stating that it ranked among the most successful in the history\u200c of Israel. This\u2062 achievement highlights the determination of the IDF and its \u200bcommitment to \u200cprotecting the lives of its\u200b citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Details \u200cof\u200b the Operation:<\/p>\n<p>At\u200c 1 a.m. on \u2063Monday, \u2064a joint operation involving the IDF, the Shin Bet security agency, and the police&#8217;s\u200c elite Yamam counterterrorism\u2064 unit \u200bwas launched in Rafah. This marked the\u200d first time Israeli forces had ventured\u200d into the \u2063area\u200b during their ground offensive against Hamas. Rear Admiral Daniel \u200cHagari, IDF Spokesman, described \u2063the operation as complex, mentioning that the hostages were held on the second floor of an apartment \u200bbuilding.<\/p>\n<p>The Rescue Efforts:<\/p>\n<p>The IDF successfully eliminated the terrorists guarding the hostages using explosives \u200dand broke \u2062into \u2063the \u200capartment, shielding the hostages \u2064during the gunfire. The rescuers then\u2062 retrieved Marman and Har, who were subsequently transported to the Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan. They were examined and found to\u200d be in good condition\u200c before being reunited with their families.<\/p>\n<p>Conclusion:<\/p>\n<p>The recent successful\u2064 rescue operation by the IDF in\u2063 Rafah serves as a testament to the\u2064 bravery and\u200c commitment of\u200b the Israeli military and security forces in ensuring the safety of their\u200d citizens.\u200d With ongoing efforts to combat terrorism and secure the release\u2064 of remaining captives, Israel continues to \u2064demonstrate its determination \u200bin the face of \u2062adversity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tel Aviv, Israel &#8211; Feb 12: Hagit Matzliah removes a kidnapped sign from the store where Fernando Marman, a rescued hostage, worked in Ramat Hasharon. 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