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carried out this incredibly daring amazingly successful hostage rescue, rescues four hostages, including this poor woman who was really the image of the terror of October 7th when she was taken from that music festival on the back of a motor bike.

These hostages are being held in apartment buildings right next to each other in civilian apartments by civilians. The Israeli commandos show up dressed in

disguise in broad daylight in late morning and 10 or 11 in the morning and snatch these and escape with all of them, make off with all of them, and then one of the vehicles breaks down and there's a firefight and then a huge battle in the midst of this crowded refugee camp and all of a sudden this operation that should be a movie should be made of it

it's it's like an and Teby and civilians are killed because Hamas took these hostages, resisted violently, the rescue of these hostages,

so there's a big fight, and now you have foreign countries condemning the raid, you have the tone of the American media coverage

is skeptical or hostile like Israel did something wrong in going and taking its people back.

The reaction has been shocking.

I don't take issue with anything in your description and as you describe it

it is a feat of an operation with the exception of the description of where these

hostages were being held as a refugee camp. That conjures up in the mind images of makeshift tense individuals who are displaced from the places where they and their families have lived for generations

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