Israel rescued two Israeli hostages in southern Gaza on Monday.
The 2 rescued Israeli hostages assembly their households ♥️pic.twitter.com/0ZoedtptrA
— Marina Medvin (@MarinaMedvin) February 12, 2024
This comes after Joe Biden known as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and instructed him to not enter Rafah – that it’d break down hostage negotiations.
Israel ignored Biden’s command and went forward and rescued their individuals.
Joe Biden instructed Prime Minister Netanyahu to withstand a navy operation within the Rafah space. Israel went forward and rescued their individuals anyway.
The 2 rescued Israeli hostages assembly their households ♥️pic.twitter.com/0ZoedtptrA
— Marina Medvin (@MarinaMedvin) February 12, 2024
The AP reported on the rescue with their typical slant:
Israeli forces rescued two hostages early Monday, storming a closely guarded condominium within the southern Gaza Strip and extracting the captives below hearth in a dramatic raid that was a small however symbolically vital success for Israel. The operation killed no less than 67 Palestinians, together with ladies and youngsters, in keeping with Palestinian well being officers within the beleaguered territory.
To help the rescue forces, heavy airstrikes pounded the realm close to the condominium in Rafah, a metropolis on the southern fringe of the Gaza Strip the place 1.4 million Palestinians have fled to flee combating elsewhere within the Israel-Hamas battle.
The raid was celebrated in Israel as a victory within the sluggish battle to free the hostages, with greater than 100 captives nonetheless held by Hamas and different Gaza militants, and briefly lifted the spirits of a nation nonetheless reeling from Hamas’ cross-border raid final yr. However in Gaza, the place civilians have borne a staggering toll for the reason that battle erupted on Oct. 7, the operation unleashed one other wartime tragedy, with many Palestinians killed or wounded.
The AP forgot to say that there could be no bombings if Hamas weren’t nonetheless holding over 100 Israeli hostages!
The IDF launched a press release on the rescue.
“This rescue mission underscores the significance of our floor operation in Gaza. We have now an ethical obligation to carry all our hostages dwelling, an obligation that we are going to proceed doing all the pieces in our energy to meet.”
Watch the total assertion by IDF Spokesperson RAdl. Daniel… pic.twitter.com/M29G46pJw1
— Israel Protection Forces (@IDF) February 12, 2024
