Relative of Rescued Hostages: The Nightmare Is Not Over for Scores More Held by Hamas

Yet Maayan Sigal-Koren has words of hope for the rest of the families of hostages, who she says have all grown close during the past four months.

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Luis Har, left, is hugged by relatives after being rescued from captivity in the Gaza Strip, at the Sheba Medical Center at Ramat Gan, Israel, February 12, 2024. Israeli army via AP

As Luis Har, 70, and Fernando Marman, 60, sat in an IDF armored vehicle in Gaza in the early morning hours of February 12, the two men could not believe that they were finally heading home. After 129 days in Hamas captivity with little to eat and no access to medication, the starving men were in disbelief that the IDF commandos had been able to extract them in a complex rescue mission from the heart of a civilian neighborhood at Rafah, where they were being held. When asked by the IDF soldiers if they were warm enough, Fernando replied with a big smile that their hearts were especially warm. 

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