Israel should ‘work shortly’ to avoid wasting hostages taken by Hamas to Gaza or threat dropping them to Palestinian management, intelligence professional warns

A counterterrorism professional and former member of the Israeli Protection Power has issued a stern warning to ‘work shortly’ to avoid wasting hostages in Gaza taken by Hamas.

Aaron Cohen spoke to Fox News saying it is crucial to retrieve these taken earlier than the state of affairs escalates.

‘The longer Israel waits to have the ability to conduct these hostage rescues in Gaza, the longer the terrorists have to maneuver round these hostages,’ he mentioned.

‘Which makes it harder for our Mossad and our Shin Wager safety or intelligence businesses to search out them.

‘So, Israel has to work in a short time to have the ability to strike these targets.’

Cohen defined that the ‘longer they wait, the extra these hostages are going to get moved round.’ 

Greater than 100 individuals are being held hostage, Hamas claimed, in response to the Related Press.

Counterterrorism professional Aaron Cohen has issued a warning to the Israel army to ‘work shortly’ to avoid wasting hostages in Gaza taken by Hamas

‘The extra sick they are going to get, the extra drained they are going to get and the extra the Hamas will have the ability to proceed to construct layers in between the Israeli intelligence businesses and people hostages,’ he added.

The previous Israeli particular operator claimed Israel is a ‘grasp’ of hostage rescue which will likely be advantageous in the course of the retrieval course of.

He famous that Israel carried out one of many ‘most spectacular’ rescue raids in 1976, when 103 hostages had been taken prisoner to Entebbe, Uganda. 

The hostages had been flown there in a aircraft hijacked by members of the Standard Entrance for the Liberation of Palestine. 

‘Israel invented or perfected the hostage rescue recreation and what we’ll see now could be Israel doing what it does finest,’ he mentioned.

Photographs shared on social media seem to indicate an armed Hamas militant taking a certain and wounded Israeli lady hostage

‘It is sophisticated, there are two totally different fronts right here that Israel has to cope with.

‘There are hostages which can be at present being held inside Israel, and there are hostages that are actually being held in Gaza, whether or not they’re in tunnels, or in buildings or in flats,’ including that ‘time if of the essence.’

‘I consider that you will see Israel dial issues up and do what they do finest, which is selective operations, utilizing disguise, utilizing shock and utilizing audacity and tenaciousness,’ he mentioned.

‘Let me let you know, these belongings, they’re on par with Delta Power. They’re on par with DEVGRU or SEAL Workforce Six. 

‘The Israelis are finely tuned machines in terms of these operations.’

Cohen famous that Israel carried out one of many ‘most spectacular’ rescue raids in 1976 (pictured after retrieving hostages), when 103 hostages had been taken prisoner to Entebbe, Uganda

An Israeli hostage is greeted on her return to Israel after Operation Entebbe on third July 1976, by which, Israeli particular forces rescued 100 hostages held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda 

The Israeli authorities formally declared battle Sunday and gave the inexperienced mild for ‘vital army steps’ to retaliate in opposition to Hamas for its shock assault from the Gaza Strip.

Greater than 24 hours after Hamas launched its unprecedented incursion out of Gaza, Israeli forces had been nonetheless making an attempt to crush the final teams of militant fighters holed up in a number of cities of southern Israel.

A minimum of 600 individuals have reportedly been killed in Israel and greater than 300 have been killed in Gaza as Israeli airstrikes pound the territory.

Authorities had been nonetheless making an attempt to find out what number of civilians and troopers had been seized by Hamas fighters in the course of the mayhem and brought again to Gaza.