Israel says troops have rescued a man taken hostage during Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in a «complex operation» in Gaza.
The Israeli military said Tuesday that it has rescued one of the scores of people abducted in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, which ignited the ongoing . The military said Qaid Farhan Alkadi was rescued «in a complex operation in the southern Gaza Strip.»
The Israeli military’s Army Radio network said Alkadi was the first hostage troops had managed to find and rescue alive from inside the in Gaza. Three previous operations rescued hostages who were being held in buildings above ground, the report said.
Alkadi, 52, is from Israel’s Arab Bedouin minority and was working as a guard at a packing factory in Kibbutz Magen, one of several farming communities that were attacked on Oct. 7. He has two wives and is the father of 11 children.
Israel’s showed Alkadi’s family members sprinting through the hospital where he was brought after they received the news.
