RAMAT GAN: There have been hugs and tears at Israel’s largest hospital on Monday (Feb 12) as two Gaza hostages have been reunited with their households after being rescued in a lethal navy raid.
Luis Har, 70, and Fernando Simon Marman, 60, embraced relations at Sheba Hospital after being airlifted from Gaza’s southern metropolis of Rafah.
AFP journalists in Gaza noticed the our bodies of a few of round 100 Palestinians killed in air strikes accompanying the rescue operation, in accordance with a toll from the well being ministry in Hamas-run Gaza.
Talking from Sheba the place the 2 rescued males have been present process medical assessments, Har’s son-in-law described “quite a lot of tears, hugs, not many phrases”.
“Fortunately for us, as a household, they have been saved tonight. However I need to say that the job just isn’t achieved,” Idan Bejerano instructed journalists at Sheba hospital close to Tel Aviv.
“We’re glad immediately, however we did not win. It is simply one other step in the direction of bringing all the opposite” hostages house, he continued.
Bejerano instructed AFP the household had endured a “robust” and exhausting wait, attempting to dispel rumours whereas militants launched movies of some captives.
Dozens of press cameras crammed the primary corridor of Sheba Hospital, the place sufferers have been wheeled by means of by medics.
“I COULDN’T BELIEVE HE WAS REAL”
Marman’s niece, Gefen Sigal Ilan, mentioned she was nonetheless “shaking” from the information of her uncle’s rescue. “After I noticed him I could not imagine he was actual,” she instructed AFP.
She mentioned the households of hostages will preserve combating for the discharge of different captives. “I wish to say we is not going to cease till all hostages are free… We’ll battle for his or her freedom,” mentioned Ilan, 36.
The 2 males have been taken captive from kibbutz Nir Yitzhak in southern Israel, so near Rafah that the raid to rescue them could possibly be heard from the agricultural neighborhood.
“From two o’clock within the morning, we began listening to booms and noises,” mentioned Moshe Schori, the kibbutz supervisor, including that “we could not sleep”.
“Solely within the morning we noticed on the information that they (Israeli forces) launched two individuals who have been in our kibbutz,” he added, standing outdoors the house from which they have been snatched on October 7.
