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Incredible: Israel Pulls Off Epic Hostage Rescue Deep Inside Gaza

Guy Benson
Guy Benson  |  February 12, 2024 10:05 AM

The news has been very bleak for quite some time concerning the remaining hostages held by Hamas inside Gaza, as additional deaths have been reported and confirmed.  Israel and the civilized world needed some good news -- and late last night, some good news arrived.  The Israeli government announced the successful execution of a dramatic and daring rescue operation in which two hostages being held by terrorists in a Rafah apartment were freed.  They were returned home.  Alive.  The details of how this was achieved read like something out of a thriller novel, or perhaps more aptly, an episode of the show Fauda (as was this amazing surgical raid against senior Hamas operatives late last month).  

These specifics come courtesy of an Israeli journalist, per government sources.  Bravo to all involved

• 2 hostages Louis Har and Fernando Marman rescued tonight in an operation from Rafah 

• Their condition is determined to be good, they were transferred to Sheba Hospital 

• Shayetet 13, Shin Bet, and other forces participated in the operation 

• This was a hidden apartment in Rafah: "an operation that has been worked on for a long time, and until now the conditions were not there to carry it out" 

• The hostages were kept in a hidden apartment on the second floor of the building 

• The forces entered the building while the surrounding apartments full of armed terrorists. Air force stopped an attempt to attack the rescuers leaving the scene. 

• An hour later: the rescue operation was over

Additional details are emerging, including footage of the rescue helicopter touching back down on Israel soil. Imagine the relief and joy of those tormented families. According to the government, "many terrorists were eliminated tonight in this action,” which is an added bonus from this mission:


The significance of this operation being carried out in Rafah is immense.  Israel is planning a major offensive into that city in the south of Gaza, and the 'ceasefire' crowd seems desperate to stop that from happening.  President Biden, whose administration is increasingly catering to radical activists, has been pressuring Israel's government not to move forward with that assault.  The rescue raid -- which will be devastating to Hamas supporters and sympathizers all over the world -- seriously undermines a key piece of Biden's ill-conceived meddling:

The Israeli government, in formally announcing the results of this mission, noted that it "underscores the importance of our ground operation in Gaza."  Absolutely true:

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Many of the people demanding a 'ceasefire,' or that Israel stop short of eliminating Hamas, harbor very dark motives.  Quite a few, particularly in the West, are useful, ignorant idiots.  Others don't want Israel to finish the job because that could truly decimate Hamas, which appears to be using Rafah as a final refuge.  Or because the more Israel exposes what's been happening in Gaza, the more it implicates various international organizations operating there.  Such as already-scandal-plagued UNRWA, which is now fully discredited and disgraced:


Rotten to the core. "Seems one reason UNRWA spent months calling for a cease-fire was because it didn’t want the IDF to discover the command center under its headquarters," one journalist observed.  Quite obviously true.  UNRWA should be defunded completely.  Not only were their employees part of the October 7 massacre, while many others openly celebrated it, Hamas set up a major command center underneath UNRWA's headquarters in Gaza.  Despite their humiliated, unconvincing, desperate protestations, they knew.  Others are being unmasked, as well:


Israel has a moral and governing obligation to destroy the terrorist organization that invaded their country and slaughtered 1,200 civilians a few months ago.  That terrorist group comprehensively rejects peace, rejects Israel's very existence, fanatically hates Jews, and loudly promises to carry out atrocities in perpetuity.  They must be annihilated, no matter who objects (or, in the case of the President of the United States, gets cold feet for political reasons).  I'll leave you with this:

UPDATE -- Heartwarming: