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Gaza war: What we know about Israel's Rafah hostage rescue raid (www.bbc.com)

submitted 10 months ago by gedaliyah to c/world

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Details have begun to emerge of an overnight Israeli military operation which freed two Israeli-Argentine hostages held captive by Hamas in the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

They have been named as Louis Har, 70, and Fernando Marman, 60, who were kidnapped from the kibbutz of Nir Yitzhak on 7 October.

Hundreds of Hamas gunmen infiltrated southern Israel that day, killing 1,200 people and taking another 250 back to Gaza as hostages. More than 28,100 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel launched a military campaign in response, according to the territory's health ministry.

Both of the freed hostages have been taken to the Sheba Medical Center in central Israel, where they were said to be in a good condition

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[–] Altofaltception -3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So Israel has been more than capable of completing a ground assault this whole time? Yet the cowards chose to bombard Gazan civilians?

[–] MindSkipperBro12 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Less risk to your soldiers lives if you drop bomb than to send them in.

[–] Altofaltception 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

How many hostages were freed by bombing civilians?

Edit: based on the downvotes it seems that people think all the hostages are free as a result of the bombing campaign.

[–] 100_percent_a_bot -4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The bombing campaign is not supposed to free hostages but to kill hamas. There's two primary goals here.

[–] Viking_Hippie 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The bombing campaign is not supposed to free hostages but to kill ~~hamas~~ as many Palestinians as possible, whether Hamas or civilians.

There, fixed it for you.

[–] 100_percent_a_bot -3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Then they are doing a very shitty job at it. Just so you have a benchmark, the bombing of Dresden killed about as many people in a single day as Israel killed in over 4 months.

[–] rambaroo 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

They've murdered 30,000 fucking people already. That's more civilians than Russia killed in two years. Israel couldn't get away with a firebombing like Dresden. I hate these stupid excuses. Israel is too reliant on foreign aid to be that blatant.

[–] 100_percent_a_bot 1 points 10 months ago

There's nothing to excuse, people die in wars. With an area this densely populated high civilian casualties are to be expected. Especially if you have combatants who are willing to hide behind the civilian population.

Also don't even think about comparing this to Russia Ukraine. Not only did Russia kill more ukrainians, the way more important factor is the justification for the wars. Ukraine was attacked without any credible justification. You can bothsides Isreal - Gaza if you want but the mission objective of taking out hamas is infinitely more justified.