The British newspaper The Daily Express reports that according to direct leaks from Israeli officials, the IDF knows where a significant number of the Israeli abductees are being held in the Gaza Strip, but does not carry out operations to rescue them for fear of harming the lives of Gazans.
According to the Daily Express report, senior Israeli officials explained to the newspaper that Israel was indeed able to pinpoint the location of many hostages within the Strip, the army does not launch rescue operations in the area for fear of harming non-involved Gazans, who are in the locations where the abducted Israelis are being held.
According to the leak of the Israeli sources to the Daily Express, the places where the captives are kept are apparently fortified and trapped at a level that will cause great environmental destruction if the operation is not successful, and therefore no attempt is made to free the hostages by military force.
If such a report turns out to be true, it is difficult to say that Israel and the IDF learned significant lessons from the massacre on the seventh of October, when Hamas terrorists and Gazan civilians raided southern Israel, until this moment Israeli officials have not denied the British report.