Army says Israeli hostage rescued from Gaza

The Israeli military said it rescued an Israeli hostage in Gaza on Tuesday after a “complex operation”, as the Israel-Hamas war, now in its 11th month, showed no signs of abating.

Kaid Alkadi, a 52-year-old Israeli Bedouin, was abducted by Palestinian militants during the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, the military said in a statement.

“Kaid AlKadi was rescued… in a complex operation in the southern Gaza Strip,” the military said.

“He is in a stable medical condition and is being transferred for medical checks to a hospital.”

Alkadi is a resident of Rahat, a mainly Arab town, and on October 7 he had been working as a guard at a warehouse near Gaza when he was seized by Hamas fighters.

“We are committed to seizing every opportunity to bring the hostages back to their homes,” Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said in a statement on X.