Hostage held by Hamas in Gaza rescued by Israeli forces, IDF says
A Bedouin man who had been held hostage in Gaza for more than 10 months managed to escape Hamas' captivity (WHEN), the Israeli military announced on Tuesday.
TEL AVIV — Israeli forces rescued a Bedouin man during an operation in Gaza, Israeli officials announced Tuesday, more than 10 months after he was taken captive during the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel.
Qaid Farhan Alkadi, 52, was freed from a vast underground tunnel in a "complex mission" by Israeli commandos acting on intelligence, the Israel Defense Forces spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, said in a news briefing Tuesday.
"He is alive and back home in Israel," Hagari said.
Alkadi, a father of 11 from south of Rahat, an Arab Bedouin city in the Southern District of Israel, was taken hostage during Hamas’ attacks as he was working in security at a packing factory in Kibbutz Magen in southern Israel, the Hostages and Missing Families Forum said in a statement Tuesday.
"Suddenly, I heard someone speaking Hebrew outside the door, I couldn’t believe it, I couldn’t believe it," Alkadi told Israeli President Isaac Herzog in a phone call from his hospital room, according to a summary of the call released by the president’s office.
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