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![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://livdose.com/not-dwelling-but-freed-israeli-hostage-remembers-rescue-operation-news18/&media=https://i1.wp.com/images.news18.com/static_news18/pix/ibnhome/news18/news18-logo-200x200_n.png?w=1200&resize=1200,0&ssl=1&description=An explosion woke Luis Har in the middle of the night and he rolled off his mattress seeking cover. This was it, he thought, expecting the building where he was being held captive to collapse.Then came the massive gunfire. And someone shouted his name and called out: 'It's the IDF, we've come to take you home.'It was surreal, Har said of his Feb. 12 rescue by Israeli special forces after more than four months in Hamas captivity."On the way I even asked one of the soldiers - 'Tell me, are you sure we're not in a movie?' Because I wasn't sure. So much had happened. Is it real, is it not real," Har said. "Even today, I don't know what is real and what is not."Har, now 71, was taken hostage in Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel. He and four relatives, one of them is 17-year-old Mia Leimberg and her dog, were grabbed at gunpoint from a house in Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak and taken to Gaza.Surveillance footage released by the South First Responders showed the young Leimberg, her 59-year-old mother Gabriela and 64-year-old Clara Marman, who is Har's partner, being kidnapped on Oct. 7 on the back of a pick-up truck.Reuters was able to confirm the location by road layout, buildings, gate and trees seen in the video which match satellite imagery of the area. People seen in the back of the truck match Mia Leimberg and her mother Gabriela Leimberg from a Reuters interview after their releaseThe three female hostages were released during a week-long November truce. Har and Clara's brother, Fernando Marman, now 61, were held in a building in the southern city of Rafah until their rescue in February.He recalled spending the days talking about things they wanted to cook or where they would travel. There were periods of depression when they retreated into themselves and did not speak or smile, he said.That was when he imagined talking to and playing with his grandchildren. And being hugged by them which brought tears to his eyes.Har spoke to Reuters from the headquarters in Tel Aviv for the forum of families of hostages in Gaza. The residents of his community, like thousands of evacuees from Israeli border towns, have yet to return home.The most important thing for now, he said, is the return of the remaining 133 captives."Enough with their families' suffering," he said. "It's urgent. Every day that passes is terrible."Israel has said it will not end its devastating war on Hamas until they are all freed.Har said he at times wakes up in the middle of the night thinking of his captors. Or that a loud noise can trigger a painful memory."I haven't come home yet. I don't know who I am yet, and it will take time," said Har.){kind=link}