Hamas says it will execute hostages if IDF attempts rescue missions
Israel‘s Nuseirat rescue operation on June 9 saw Israeli forces free four hostages, who had been held by Hamas since October 2023.
Israel‘s Nuseirat rescue operation on June 9 saw Israeli forces free four hostages, who had been held by Hamas since October 2023.
The IDF retrieved the bodies of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, Eden Yerushalmi, 24, Ori Danino, 25, Almog Sarusi, 25, Alexander Lobanov, 32, and Carmel Gat, 40, in Rafah last month.
The soldiers did not know of their presence; the army’s policy is not to send troops to areas that intelligence indicates may hold live hostages.
Hamas reversed an earlier statement after the bodies of the hostages were recovered, claiming that they died in IDF airstrikes.
Israeli Navy’s Shayetet 13 and the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit carried out the operation.
Habib’s uncle Ismail told him, ‘You’re going to meet your dad,’ and the child smiled.