The prisoners who returned as part of the rescue operation in Nuseirat told the medical teams.

During their days of captivity, they were subjected to “brainwashing” and emotional abuse, when “terrorists” forced them to read the Qur’an and learn Islamic rules.

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Occupation Army Radio
 
Army estimates indicate that the operation in Rafah will be completed within a few weeks,

and estimates that the fighting in the Gaza Strip after the Rafah operation will move to the stage of incursions.

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Nahum Barnea - Yedioth Ahronoth:

Yesterday's operation did not solve any of the problems that Israel has been dealing with since October 7: not the crisis in the north;

Neither the Gaza crisis nor the other crises that threaten Israel on the international front - in each of these issues the government continues to dive into a hole it has dug for itself. It does not hurt, in this context,

to return to the eternal advice of Dennis Haley, who was the British Defense Minister: when you are in a hole, stop digging.

The extraordinary efforts made to rescue the four kidnapped yesterday and the three who were rescued before that remind us of the limits of force.

There are now approximately 120 kidnapped people in Gaza. According to army estimates, half of them are alive.

There is no way to extricate all of them - or even most of them - in military operations.

If there is anyone who believes that yesterday's operation exempts the government from a deal, then he is living in illusions.

Quite the opposite: the joy of saving them demonstrates the need for a deal – there are those we must save, and as quickly as possible.


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Hezbollah:

We mourn the martyr Ali Khalil Hamad from the town of Aitaroun in southern Lebanon, who rose as a martyr on the road to Jerusalem.

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