The Israeli military announced that its forces successfully rescued an Israeli hostage in southern Gaza on Tuesday following a "complex operation". According to a military statement, Kaid Alkadi, a 52-year-old Israeli Bedouin, was abducted during the October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel.

"Kaid Alkadi was rescued... in a complex operation in the southern Gaza Strip," the military reported. "He is in stable medical condition and is being transferred for medical checks to a hospital." Alkadi, a resident of Rahat, a predominantly Arab town, was working as a guard at a warehouse in southern Israel on October 7 when he was abducted.