RAMAT GAN: There were hugs and tears at Israel's largest hospital on Monday (Feb 12) as two Gaza hostages were reunited with their families after being rescued in a deadly military raid.
Luis Har, 70, and Fernando Simon Marman, 60, embraced relatives at Sheba Hospital after being airlifted from Gaza's southern city of Rafah.
AFP journalists in Gaza saw the bodies of some of around 100 Palestinians killed in air strikes accompanying the rescue operation, according to a toll from the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza.
Speaking from Sheba where the two rescued men were undergoing medical tests, Har's son-in-law described "a lot of tears, hugs, not many words".
"Luckily for us, as a family, they were saved tonight. But I must say that the job is not done," Idan Bejerano told journalists at Sheba hospital near Tel Aviv.
"We are happy today, but we didn't win. It's just another step towards bringing all the other" hostages home, he continued.
Bejerano told AFP the family had endured a "tough" and exhausting wait, trying to dispel rumours while militants released videos of some captives.
Dozens of press cameras filled the main hall of Sheba Hospital, where patients were wheeled through by medics.
"I COULDN'T BELIEVE HE WAS REAL"
Marman's niece, Gefen Sigal Ilan, said she was still "shaking" from the news of her uncle's rescue. "When I saw him I couldn't believe he was real," she told AFP.
She said the families of hostages will keep fighting for the release of other captives. "I want to say we will not stop until all hostages are free... We will fight for their freedom," said Ilan, 36.
The two men were taken captive from kibbutz Nir Yitzhak in southern Israel, so close to Rafah that the raid to rescue them could be heard from the rural community.
"From two o'clock in the morning, we started hearing booms and noises," said Moshe Schori, the kibbutz manager, adding that "we couldn't sleep".
"Only in the morning we saw on the news that they (Israeli forces) released two people who were in our kibbutz," he added, standing outside the home from which they were snatched on October 7.
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