{"id":53400,"date":"2023-10-13T14:12:22","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T12:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=53400"},"modified":"2024-10-13T00:02:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T22:02:36","slug":"the-successful-rescue-of-hostages-by-the-shayetet-13-the-special-force-of-the-israeli-navy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/10\/13\/the-successful-rescue-of-hostages-by-the-shayetet-13-the-special-force-of-the-israeli-navy\/","title":{"rendered":"The successful rescue of hostages by the Shayetet 13, the special force of the Israeli Navy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The terrorist attack launched by Hamas against Israel on October 7 has not had even more victims thanks to the actions of the Israeli military.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/10\/07\/the-weapons-that-the-israel-defense-forces-have-to-wipe-hamas-off-the-map\/\">The weapons that the Israel Defense Forces have to wipe Hamas off the map<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/04\/15\/iron-beam-this-is-how-the-israel-defense-forces-laser-weapon-works\/\">Iron Beam: This is how the Israel Defense Forces laser weapon works<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>The Israel Defense Forces released a video yesterday showing <strong>one of these operations, carried out by Shayetet 13<\/strong> (Flotilla 13), the Israeli Navy's special operations force. <strong>equivalent of the famous US Navy SEALs<\/strong>, but with the difference that it is much older, since Shayetet 13 was founded in 1949. <strong>Today it is considered one of the best special forces in the world .<\/strong>This operation would have been carried out on October 7, the same day of the Hamas attack. <strong>In the video one of the terrorists appears being taken out of a building completely naked:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"IDF Elite Unit Rescues Around 250 Hostages Alive\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/taZB-dvsg9c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>What appears in the video is the Israeli military post of Sufa<\/strong>, near the southern border with Gaza. The post was stormed by Hamas terrorists on Saturday, October 7. The description of the video indicates the following details of the operation: <em>\"<strong>The soldiers rescued around 250 hostages alive. 60+ Hamas terrorists were neutralized and 26 were apprehended<\/strong> \u2014 including Muhammad Abu A'ali the Deputy Commander of the Hamas southern Naval Division.\"<\/em> We can see below <strong>some details shown in the video:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53255043418_da8f70c170_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Shayetet 13 soldier with the Israeli version of the M-4 carbine.<\/strong> Unlike the original American carbine, this version has longer handguard vents.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53253869157_65d39d1205_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Shayetet 13 soldiers with an M-4 carbine and an M-72 LAW grenade launcher.<\/strong> The soldier in the center of the image carries a CamelBak on his back.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53255104959_2a2464e7d0_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Two Shayetet 13 operators.<\/strong> They wear helmets and special operations uniforms, but with the traditional olive green color of the Israeli Army. The operator on the left wears a red Punisher skull patch on his helmet.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53254754256_890002d8f7_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An image in which we see the <strong>M-72 LAW grenade launcher<\/strong> hanging on the back of this operator.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53253869177_049ce03606_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Shayetet 13 operator firing his M-4 carbine.<\/strong> A suppressor is attached to the barrel.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53255243155_e662b16483_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Three Shayetet 13 operators during the hostage rescue.<\/strong> The one on the left is armed with an M-4 carbine and wears the captain's insignia on his arm. The operator on the right is a select marksman and carries a 7.62 mm Barrett REC10 rifle.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53255243150_42397886c6_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Another image of the Shayetet 13 operators that allows us to see their equipment better.<\/strong> In the center foreground we see an M-4 carbine with a suppressor. The operator we see in the center carries an M-72 LAW grenade launcher. Two of the soldiers wear patches with the Israeli Flag in low visibility, black.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53255043473_3692ab3190_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Shayetet 13 operators inside one of the Sufa military post buildings.<\/strong> They are spreading a thermal rescue blanket over a wounded man.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53255043443_14c8fc2b24_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Shayetet 13 soldiers evacuating an injured person on a stretcher.<\/strong> In the background we see a Merkava Mk-IV tank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The terrorist attack launched by Hamas against Israel on October 7 has not had even more victims thanks to the actions of the Israeli military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,17021],"tags":[20334,828,20307,95,20299,16454,14796,20297,15581],"class_list":["post-53400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-special-forces","tag-barrett-rec10","tag-hamas","tag-hamas-terrorist-attack-on-israel-on-october-7-2023","tag-israel","tag-israel-navy","tag-m-4-carbine","tag-m-72-law","tag-merkava-mkiv","tag-shayetet-13"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}