Posted on 06/11/2024 3:59:49 AM PDT by MtnClimber
“There was a knock on the door. A voice said, ‘It’s the IDF. We’ve come to take you home.’”
This is how former hostage Noa Argamani described her rescue from Hamas on the Sabbath — Saturday, June 8 — which also happened to be her father’s birthday. Israelis spent the weekend cheering her rescue, along with the rescues of three other former hostages — Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov, and Shlomi Ziv.
All four, ranging in age from 22 to 41, were kidnapped from the Nova music festival on October 7, Hamas’s notorious day of atrocities. Israeli intelligence recently determined with certainty that they were being held in two separate buildings in Nuseirat, in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli command — which rose to the level of the prime minister and the war cabinet itself — decided to conduct two raids simultaneously, at 11:25 a.m. Both buildings were heavily guarded by Hamas fighters, though the buildings looked, to all appearances, like regular civilian apartments. It took the intelligence work of Shin Bet — an apparatus of the Israeli intelligence service — to identify the difference: these “civilian apartments” were in fact military locations in which Hamas was illegally holding several innocent hostages they had kidnapped 245 days earlier.
One Israeli commando — Chief Inspector Arnon Zmora — was killed in the shootout that freed the three men. There were no Israeli losses in freeing Miss Argamani. Prime Minister Netanyahu named the operation after him; it will be recorded in the history books as Operation Zmora, a fitting tribute to a heroic counter-terrorist who grew up revering Prime Minister Netanyahu’s brother Yoni, the hero who died at Entebbe in 1976.
The weekend has been full of revelations.
Those of us who have constantly focused on the lack of a clear dividing line...
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I still have not heard Biden mention the five US hostages.
Bkmk
TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY FIVE DAYS.
These people are completely broken.
I heard on the radio yesterday that Brandon is going through intermediaries in Qatar to bring them out. Yes, we hear little enough about what’s being done for them. A rescue attempt would be remarkable.
He’s busy rounding up enough money to pay for their release.
EC
Biden admin has discussed potentially negotiating unilateral deal with Hamas to free U.S. hostages
But “Heels Up” Harris is worried about the Pali’s that died during the rescue. Pathetic.
“an apartment of a journalist”
Islam uses all stratagems of war.
“Jehad is a continuous and never-ending struggle waged on all fronts including political, economic, social, psychological, domestic, moral and spiritual to attain the objectives of policy.” pp115-16 The Quranic Concept of War
Am I the only one who thought the hostages that were shown looked pretty healthy for being held captive so long? Seemed odd.
Qatar... in other words, working out a deal to transfer more money to Iran in exchange for them putting pressure on their dog to spit up some bones.
The al-Qaeda guys we put in Gitmo got healthier looking every day.
The Palestinian captor had one of the hostages do the cooking.
When you are planning to have the US help negotiate a prisoner swap with Israel it is generally a good idea to keep your captives alive for the photo ops.
Dementia Joe and his minions will offer the murdering scum billions for the release of these kidnapped Americans.
He should just drop a nuke on Gaza.
There are no civilians in Gaza and the IDF should act accordingly.
L
Israel allowing a music festival to take place so close to the border with Gaza without a massive security presence seemed a tad strange to me.
Put me in mind of events like the Lusitania sinking, Pearl Harbor, 9/11...
See where I’m going with this?
ironic that is was the “media” who was holding the hostages!
“War is the health of the State.”
Randolph Bourne
The s in State was deliberately capitalized by Bourne.
It’s amazing the hostages were not murdered as the IDF closed in.
You dont have to see the turd or know where it is to know the dog dropped one when you walk in the door.
Now, the Palestine Chronicle is a terribly biased mouthpiece of the anti-Israel, pro-Hamas left. It’s a U.S. nonprofit, based in Washington state, a publication devoted to spinning the news of the war to make Israel look like the aggressors, constantly blurring the definitions of civilians and noncombatants, routinely parroting the falsified casualty numbers published by Hamas, to warp global understanding of the ongoing war.
Similarly, Al Jazeera — the Qatar-based global Arab news outlet — has been outed over the past eight months as being even more deeply involved with Hamas than most previously suspected. We have learned that the outlet doesn’t limit its support of terrorism to spinning the news; numerous Al Jazeera correspondents have been found to participate in terrorist acts, before, during, and since October 7. The discovery of three hostages in the home of Aljamal has now rightly brought this important issue back to the world’s attention.
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