Israeli singer and actor Idan Amedi, who played as one of the key characters in Israeli TV show Fauda, was seriously injured in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip. He is fighting as a Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reservist there. He was airlifted to a hospital on Monday for treatment. His family told Israeli news agencies that Amedi’s life was no longer in danger.
Amedi is famous in Israel for playing the role of a soldier in an elite IDF unit which operates in Palestinian areas of West Bank and Gaza Strip in the TV show Fauda. He is currently fighting Hamas as a reservist and part of the Combat Engineering Corps.
He was brought to Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan on Monday after he was injured where he underwent a lengthy surgery.
Amedi was interviewed hours earlier before his injury where he described his current mission which involved demolishing tunnels Hamas built. “It’s crazy, what they built here. The operation here is on a very central route. We found kilometres of tunnels here, weaponry, even special weaponry. We’ve been busy the past two days trying to destroy it,” Amedi told Israeli broadcaster Channel 12.
Meanwhile, the Israeli army on Monday showed journalists ‘a cluster of weapons factories and tunnels used by Hamas in Gaza to manufacture rockets’.
Army spokesman Daniel Hagari holding what he describes as ‘detonators’ said for rockets capable of hitting targets 100 kilometres covering much of central and south Israel.
The soldiers took mediapersons on a tour in Bureij in the central Gaza Strip and said that these cement factories and other industrial facilities were actually used to make missiles and shells stored in deep shafts.
Hagari told reporters at the site that this factory had been built around Salah al-Din Road. The route is also used to transport humanitarian aid into the besieged coastal strip.
The war was triggered when Hamas terrorists attacked southern Israel on October 7, resulting in about 1,140 deaths, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.
The terrorists also took around 250 hostages, 132 of whom remain captive, Israel says. At least 25 are believed to have been killed.
Israel responded with relentless bombardment and a ground invasion that have killed at least 23,084 people, most of them women and children, according to the Gaza health ministry.
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