jeremy tell us what you know about this operation where it the idf was able to locate all kotey well, i'm told that the israeli military had intelligence that there may be hostages it's in the area where i'll kotey was found. >> israeli special forces went into the network of tunnels in southern gaza. and while they were there, they located all kinds see this 52-year-old father of 11, who has been held captive by hamas for 326 days. when they found him. i'm told that he was alone without his captors. it's not exactly clear where his captors went before israeli troops showed up, but he becomes the first israeli hostage to be rescued. dude by israeli forces while he was in an underground tunnel in four previous instances, or sorry, three previous instances in which seven other hostile soldiers were rescued by israeli forces. they were all found in above ground locations i'll kotey was then taken in an israeli military israel the soroka medical center, where we saw images of his brothers rushing, running to the helicopter to suddenly be able to be reunited with him they had started to lo

kotey pauses a moment. he reaches out and shakes her hand. peace be with you, she says. he has not intentionally touched the hand of a woman in a long time. and why, then, he's asked, did he take diane's hand? he ponders a moment and says, she's like a mother to us all. >> he was very human in his interaction with us, in his remorse. >> he respected diane in an extraordinary way. >> you saw his humanity, and when i read that passage, i felt like he also saw yours. >> that's the part that was the grace of the moment. >> reporter: foley says her son's spirit has been guiding her for the past decade. >> i failed jim in a lot of ways, but i have to forgive myself for some of that. >> reporter: now she hopes others will carry his torch. >> there's still a lot of work to be done. >> reporter: and keep his legacy alive. >> i want jim to inspire others to use their gifts for good. our world needs that. >> reporter: roxana saberi, chicago. >>> the u.s. military lives by the motto "no man left behind." well 80 years after a u.s. bomber crashed in world war ii, hundreds of voluntee

i'll kotey has visibly lost weight, but doctors say he is in good medical condition. his family is overjoyed with him clash as it is a joy that cannot be explained. his brother hatem says more than the joy you get from a newborn baby. this is a man who has been resurrected i'll call it a member of israel's minority bedouin community. now on the phone with the israeli prime minister. thanking him for getting him home. and reminding him that other hostages are still waiting is really prime minister currently engaged in ceasefire negotiations tells me is committed to returning everyone without exception and alex, the clock is certainly ticking for those remaining 108 hostages still held in gaza, about a third of whom have already been confirmed dead by the israeli government. and for those who are alive though, it's very clear to most people in israeli society that it won't be these military operations that will return them home only eight hostages have so far been rescued alive from gaza by the israeli military. instead, that will happen through a negotiated settlement.

and that is when they came across this man said farhan al kotey, a 52-year-old hostage who had been held hostage by hamas for 326 days, an israeli military official telling me that he was alone when he was found without his case captors who may have fled the area before those israeli troops arrived on the scene. but they were able to rescue him, take him to awaiting israeli military helicopter, and then out of gaza to a hospital in southern israel where he was finally able to be reunited with his very large family he is a father of 11 children, yet several brothers who were at the hospital and who were overjoyed to see him there. they had started to lose hope that he would even emerge from gaza alive. and that is when they got the call early this morning that he was indeed alive, that he had been rescued by israeli forces then he was on his way to this hospital in southern israel. he is the eighth israeli hostage to actually be rescued in an israeli military operation. but as you said, he is the first to be rescued from an underground tunnel. the others were all being held above ground.

to go back to june boone to the last time that hostages were rescued alive from gaza c90 farhan al kotey his family, lucky to have him back and i just want to mention that video that i think that this is his family running out towards the helicopter. >> were they are bringing him in to the hospital and it's quite touching to see just how quickly everyone is just trying they get to him as fast as possible. and as you reported last hour, he's in stable condition, so he's doing okay. his family has surrounding him now at the hospital, jim sciutto. thank you so much for those new details really a pretty she had it can all right. >> a texas morning, a latino civil rights group is calling for a federal investigation into this state attorney general, ken paxton, after a series of raids on the homes of latino vote voting activists, happened in three counties. some of those target earn their 70s and 80s. the president of the league of united latin american citizen calls it point blank. voter intimidation. let's get right to cnn's ed lavandera in dallas to explain what's going on here. good mornin

that israeli special forces were combing a network of tunnels in southern gaza when they found all kotey, they say that they found him alone it's out his captors. >> now, these israeli officials insist that they were the special forces were acting on intelligence that hostages may be in the area and that is indeed how these shayetet 13 effectively israel's navy seals, found al-qadri in one of these tunnel networks. and what's so notable about that is that this is the first time that israeli troops have actually rescued an israeli hostage from within that vast tunnel network beneath the gaza strip in the seven other hostages who have been raped eschewed so far by the israeli military were all being held aboveground. and so that is notable in and of itself, the we know that al-qarni was then airlifted to a hospital that'll in southern israel, the soroka hospital where he was finally reunited with his family members, several of his brothers said that they had started to lose hope that he might even emerge from the goddess the strip alive. and then they received a phone call earlier today te