An Israeli actor, best known for his role as a special forces soldier in the Netflix series “Fauda,” was seriously injured in Gaza while fighting for the Israeli military against Hamas, according to his family and the hospital where he is being treated. .
Idan Amedi, 35, is in critical condition in the ICU at the Sheba Tel Hashomer Medical Center near Tel Aviv, according to a hospital spokesperson.
However, the star's father told Israeli website Walla!: “There is no danger to his life.”
Amedi, who is of Kurdish descent, rose to fame in the 2010s as a singer-songwriter before joining the cast of “Fauda” in 2017. He plays a member of an Israeli special forces unit in the series, which follows an agent Israeli who comes out of retirement to hunt down a Palestinian fighter he thought he killed, according to the show's official Netflix page.
Amedi volunteered to fight for the Israeli military in Gaza following the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, according to “Fauda” co-creators Lior Raz and Avi Issacharaoff.
“Idan is a true hero and from the first day of the war he decided to leave everything aside and go fight. First in the north and then in the south [de Gaza]”, they said to Walla!
Source: CNN Brasil
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