Yahoo News ‘Fauda’ Actor Idan Amedi Recovering From Surgery After Being Injured Fighting in Gaza
“Fauda” actor and singer Idan Amedi, who joined the Israeli forces to fight against Hamas in the wake of the Oct. 7 attack and was seriously injured on Monday, has come out of surgery and regained consciousness, Variety has confirmed.
The 35-year-old was airlifted to a hospital on Monday after being wounded by shrapnel while serving as an IDF reservist in the Combat Engineering Corps. He was interviewed shortly before being injured and spoke about the tunnels built by Hamas which his unit was working on. “We found kilometers of tunnels here, weaponry, even special weaponry. We’ve been busy the past two days trying to destroy it,” Amedi told a Channel 12 correspondent. He is still hospitalized and receiving treatment, but is now awake.
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Amedi, who was born to Kurdish immigrants and raised in Jerusalem, plays elite IDF soldier Sagi Tzur in the Netflix hit show “Fauda,” which tackles the Israel-Hamas conflict. Since the Oct. 7 attack, during which Hamas killed over 1,200 civilians in Southern Israel, several people involved in the show have been injured or lost their lives. The show’s post-production sound editor, Lior Waitzman, was killed in the Oct. 7 attack, and producer Matan Meir was killed in a booby-trapped tunnel while serving in the Israeli army on Nov. 11.
Amedi served his mandatory military service in the IDF Combat Engineering Corps from 2006 to 2009 and described the post-traumatic experience of a soldier in one of his best-known songs, titled “Warrior’s Pain,” according to the Times of Israel.
(Pictured above, from left to right: Tsahi Halevi, Idan Amedi, Lior Raz, Boaz Konforty, Rona-Lee Shim’on, Doron Ben-David)
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