The Israeli Channel 12 revealed that a year ago, the Israeli army tried to free a kidnapped person from the Gaza Strip after obtaining intelligence information, but the operation ended with the killing of the prisoner Saher Baruch.
The channel explained that the soldiers of the special unit in the army believed that they were going on a mission to free the kidnapped Noa Arghmani, while it turned out that the intelligence information was wrong.
It was reported that the forces raided a building in Gaza, and were subjected, during an attempt to enter, to heavy fire, which turned the supposed liberation operation into an evacuation of the wounded, during which two soldiers were seriously injured.
The Israeli channel confirmed that until this moment it is not known whether the prisoner was killed by army fire or by the kidnappers’ fire.
During the recent period, dozens of Israeli prisoners were killed in Gaza due to bombing or during Israeli operations inside the Strip, and some of them were killed during failed attempts to liberate them.
At the beginning of last September, a state of anger prevailed in Israel against the government of Benjamin Netanyahu after the occupation army announced the recovery of the bodies of 6 detainees after they were found inside a tunnel in the Gaza Strip.
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) announced that the prisoners were killed by the ongoing Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip, and held the Netanyahu government and the American administration responsible for their killing and the killing of the prisoners who preceded them.
Hamas said in previous statements that dozens of prisoners were killed as a result of Israeli bombing across the Gaza Strip during the war that has been ongoing for 11 months.
With every announcement that the Israeli army has recovered the bodies of prisoners from Gaza, protests in Israel escalate and accusations leveled against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of obstructing prisoner exchange and ceasefire negotiations.