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Day 129

Chaim starts his video by describing the rescue of two Israeli hostages being held by Hamas in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. Chaim gives details including the different IDF units, in cooperation with the Shin Bet, which participated in the operation. The two hostages were being hidden on the second floor of a building in Rafah and it was an immensely complex and difficult operation to carry out. They were assisted in extracting from the area by the air force, which laid down covering fire and suppressed the attacks against them as they tried to leave.

There was only one light injury to one of the rescuers, but aside from that all the Israelis got out unhurt and the mission is a success. The hostages were brought to Sheba Medical Center by helicopter and the entire operation took only one hour.

Chaim muses that he remembers visiting the home of one of the hostages on the kibbutz where the October 7th massacres took place as part of his initial duty after being called up to the IDF to fight in this war.

 Chaim concludes by saying there are still 134 more hostages and he and his comrades will do everything in their power to rescue all of them.

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(Day 563) Swords of Iron – “Drive Terror Out”

Chaim starts by saying he remembers the day he got the call to come to his IDF reserve unit because the war was starting and he was needed. He talks about others he knows who did the same, even though many of them were very busy and had a lot going on, they all dropped what they were doing and ran to join their units. They all thought it would be a short war like so many others before it, but this war has lasted over a year and a half and there’s no end in sight.

(Day 562) Swords of Iron – “Fell in the line of duty”

Chaim starts by saying it’s always tragic when the IDF suffers casualties, and he honors Warrant Officer G’haleb Sliman Alnasasra, 35, of Rahat, who was killed in action over the weekend. Several other soldiers were wounded in the attack, which occurred in an area that was believed to have been cleared of hostile actors, but Hamas had a tunnel that had not been demolished yet and some Hamas guys popped up out of that tunnel and fired an RPG at an IDF vehicle and then later as a rescue vehicle was headed towards the scene Hamas detonated an IED and inflicted more casualties.

(Day 561) Swords of Iron – “Name a Hero of yours”

Chaim starts the video by asking his viewers to leave a comment talking about who their heroes are. He then tells the story of one of his personal heroes, Fredreich Bonhoofer, who was a pastor in Germany who publicly stood against the Nazi regime and was also involved in the plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July 1944. His great legacy is that although he was a pacifist, he said that to not take action in the face of evil, and to not speak out in the face of evil, was to support evil and to become evil.

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