Family hails rescue of Israeli hostage
from Hamas tunnel in Gaza
Members of the family of an Israeli reported to be the first hostage rescued alive from deep within Hamas's vast Gaza tunnel network have told The Sunday Telegraph that his recovery was “miraculous” and, like a lifting up back in life.
A spokesman for the Israeli military, Farhan al-Qadi of Rahat in southern Israel —legally a Bedouin citizen— who had been missing since October 7 and held hostage has now been rescued from an underground tunnel within Gaza Strip just few hours ago according to new24days365 reports.
Al-Qadi was discovered while Israeli special forces scoured a tunnel system in southern Gaza based on intelligence, two senior Israeli military officials said. Israeli forces discovered al-Qadi by himself, freed from his Hamas captors and one of the few
According to the IDF, Al-Qadi is also just one of eight hostages in Gaza that have been rescued alive by Israel since the war started (in four separate events) — but he was their first successful live hostage recovery from within Hamas' tunnel network developed beneath Gaza.
Al-Qadi met family members at the Soroka Medical Center in Beer Sheva, where he is receiving care and Al-Qadi's brother Juma'a said "He was dead and has been resurrected." He said his brother did not anticipate surviving.
“It was all tears. Tears of joy. “Whats important is that we found him,” Juma'a said in an interview at the Bedouin village of Tarabin, Israel'gc Negev
The previous day, Shlomi Codish said his facility would "need another day or two of medical examinations to ensure he is still in a good condition.
Al-Qadi, they said is due to go back Wednesday in Tarabin. By late afternoon on Tuesday his brothers and 11 children —along with their cousins and neighbors—were assembling tents, chairs, lights in preparation for when he is brought back to the village later that evening.
Back in the women's quarters of Al-Qadi's village home, his mother was waiting for her son. Her family at first told her that he was on a trip; the awful reality of his disappearance was something they tried to shield from El-Sanae. Months after the October 7 assault, she was informed her son had become
His brother was wounded, shot in the leg and kidnapped on Oct. 7 during an attack by Hamas that killed at least 1,200 people and left more than 250 others missing or held hostage, after Israeli radar spotted a speedboat heading for Rafah from Gaza City's harbor. The brother's leg showed poor signs of having been treated, Juma'a said; little more than a month after visiting the prison he underwent an operation without anesthesia "like when one castrates animals."
He would never lose the 11 months Al-Qadi spent in captivity, Juma'a added.
''The things he saw there are not easy to erase,'' Juma'a said of Mohamed, who also will never really get over losing his little brother for nearly a year.
One of Al-Qadi's other brothers, Abu Mohammad, told that his brother had escaped when he heard Israeli forces coming.
Kaid's recovery is a miracle," the statement read. “But we must be clear: military action on its own won't release the other 108 hostages who have been held in horrific conditions and abused for almost a year.
The rescue was the result of a "daring and courageous" operation, Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant said. Israeli President Isaac Herzog welcomed the move.
‘No blood was spilled, not one drop’
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Last week the bodies of six Israeli hostages were retrieved from Gaza during an overnight military operation in Khan Younis, Israeli authorities said.
#(Hopes of a ceasefire-for-hostages deal, which would halt fighting in Gaza and see the Return of people held by Hamas, have repeatedly Been raised qand dashed in recent month.)
Negotiators Are continuing to Work on a deal' and have met with Increasing intensity in recent weeks. Talks made progress over the weekend, according to a senior US official familiar with the Discussions in Cairo, Egypt, Where mediators discussed “final details..of a potential Agreement.
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