Gaza war: What we know about Israel's Rafah hostage rescue raid - BBC News

Israeli commandos rescued two men in an operation that reportedly killed dozens of Palestinians.

5 days agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated TopicsIsrael-Gaza warImage source, ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESImage caption, Louis Har (2nd L) and Fernando Marman (R) hug members of their families at a hospital in central IsraelBy David GrittenBBC NewsDetails have begun to emerge of an overnight Israeli military operation which freed two Israeli-Argentine hostages held captive by Hamas in the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

Israeli forces carried out intense strikes in the area during the raid, which Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry said killed dozens of people.

This is what we know so far about what happened.

They have been named as Louis Har, 70, and Fernando Marman, 60, who were kidnapped from the kibbutz of Nir Yitzhak on 7 October.

Hundreds of Hamas gunmen infiltrated southern Israel that day, killing 1,200 people and taking another 250 back to Gaza as hostages. More than 28,100 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel launched a military campaign in response, according to the territory's health ministry.

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