Two Argentine-Israeli Hostages Rescued

Israeli forces rescued two hostages under heavy fire from Hamas during a covert operation which involved multiple air strikes through the night Sunday at Rafah, southern Gaza. Both Fernando Simon Marman, 60, and Norberto Louis Har, 70, have safely returned to Israel in good medical condition. After 129 days in captivity, the two Argentine-Israelis attributed their positive health to being held in a home rather than a tunnel.

Hamas terrorists abducted Fernando and Louis from Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak on October 7, along with Fernando’s sisters, Clara Marman (Louis’s partner) and Gabriela Leimberg, Gabriela’s 17-year-old daughter Mia and their dog Bella. The six were held together until the three women and the dog’s release on November 28 during a temporary ceasefire.

For more information and to pray for the remaining hostages by name, refer to our Israel-Gaza page:

https://prayerwallforthenationandtheworld.wordpress.com/israel-gaza/

Lord, thank You for Louis and Fernando’s release, and for protecting their health. Please heal their minds and hearts from the trauma they have experienced. Do it in such a way that they know it is You and are drawn into Your love, truth and mercy. Give them a hunger for You so intense they will seek You with all their hearts and find Jesus, the only One who can truly set them free. John 14:6, 8:32. We thank You, Lord, for your mercy in that this family was held together, and that the women were released after only one month of captivity. Open the way for them and all the hostages who have been released to receive the counseling and care they need, but especially to hear the good news and be saved. Bring Christian doctors, aid workers and counselors to them to show them Your love and the way to salvation. Give them dreams and visions to point them to You. Place Bibles in their hands. Lift the veil from their eyes and show them who You really are. Be near to those who are still held captive in Gaza. Let them feel Your presence and hear Your voice speaking tenderly to them. Tend to all their needs, comfort them with Your love, and show them Your salvation. Place Your angels around them, and make that shield visible to the terrorists who approach them. Invade the dreams of everyone in Hamas. Make them so repulsed by the atrocities they have seen and committed that they lay aside Islam and seek Jesus. Give hostages favor with their guards and give the guards courage to go against Hamas’ commands and do what is right. Single out those in Hamas whom You will turn from darkness to Light. Use them to courageously arrange the escape of many hostages, and shield and empower them as they carry out Your plans. Father God, we ask You for many miracles. May every Palestinian and every Hamas terrorist see that You alone are God and that You are GOOD. Turn their stomachs as You open their eyes to see the horrors of religion gone wrong. Prove Yourself the God of Love and how terrorism serves Satan, not God Almighty. Bring them to their knees in fear of the Lord and in surrender to Your love. Break their hearts for what breaks Yours and draw them up into Your arms to receive Christ as Savior before it’s too late. Awaken all of Gaza. Awaken Israel. Awaken every member of Hamas. Awaken every hostage, every survivor, every soldier, every terrorist, every Palestinian, every Jew, every family to Your love. Don’t let even one more lost person caught up in this earthly battle die without hearing the good news of the sacrifice You paid so we can be free. Replace death with new LIFE, violence with PEACE, hatred with LOVE, grief with gladness. Yes, Lord, what the enemy has meant for evil use to bring forth great good. Bring forth a great church planting movement that spreads throughout Israel and Palestine and all throughout the Middle East, with millions turning to Christ. In Your name, Jesus. Amen.

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