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The Israeli army has once again freed a hostage – a 52-year-old Bedouin man – held by the Palestinian Islamist organization Hamas “in a complex operation” in southern Gaza, it said on Tuesday. Kaid Farhan al-Qadi was in “stable medical condition” and taken to hospital for medical checks, the army said. The man, a father of 11 children, was the first hostage to be freed alive from a tunnel, Israeli media reported. The Hostage Families Forum welcomed the rescue operation and said al-Qadi had worked as a security guard in Kibbutz Magen on the border with Gaza. He had been held hostage for 326 day…

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