On Monday, the American newspaper “Wall Street Journal” quoted an Israeli officer as saying, “The operation to free the four Israeli detainees in the Nuseirat camp was separated from a miserable failure by a thin line.”
Israeli officials told the newspaper that “the intense fighting almost prevented the detainees and the Israeli special forces team from getting out alive.”
For its part, the New York Times quoted Israeli and American officials as saying, “Rescue operations will be the exception, and the majority of the remaining hostages will not be returned except through diplomatic means.”
“The whereabouts of many detainees are unknown, and even if it were known, a rescue mission would be impossible in many cases,” she added, quoting these officials.
They considered that “the complexity of the process of liberating detainees in Nuseirat, and the violence that accompanied it, highlights the challenges facing finding and releasing detainees.”
According to the newspaper, American and Israeli officials suggested that the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) would likely change its tactics and “seek to transfer more detainees to the tunnels and perhaps beyond the reach of Israeli special forces.”
A former head of an Israeli military intelligence department told the New York Times, “The release of the four detainees is ultimately a tactical achievement that does not change the strategic aspect,” adding that “the detainees can only be rescued as part of a ceasefire agreement.”
The day before yesterday, Saturday, the Israeli occupation army announced the recovery of 4 kidnapped Israelis from two separate areas in the heart of Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip, coinciding with the death of more than 200 Palestinians and the injury of more than 400, in a massacre committed by the occupation forces after a violent artillery and air bombardment that targeted the Nuseirat camp, according to what the office announced. Government media in Gaza.
Subsequently, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), said that the Israeli army was able, by committing horrific massacres, to recover some of its prisoners, but at the same time it killed some of them during the operation.