Israeli authorities released a video, filmed with the special forces’ body camera, showing the entrance to one of the two buildings where the hostages taken by Hamas were being held.
Israeli authorities released a video, filmed with the body camera of special forces, showing the entrance to one of the two buildings where the hostages taken by Hamas were being held. It is a small house, in a residential area of al-Nuisrat, in the center of the Gaza Strip, where the intelligence services detected the presence of Israeli civilians who had been kidnapped on October 7.
The images show what the Israel Defense Forces had already mentioned on Saturday, when they indicated that the soldiers were under intense fire throughout the operation. Only images are broadcast of the entrance to one of the houses, the one where the three Israelite men were (Noa Argamani was in another house, nearby, but there are no images of the 25-year-old woman leaving).
The video, published by agencies such as the Associated Press, shows the moment when Israeli soldiers find the three hostages and ask their names, calming them: “we are here to save you“. One of the soldiers even shakes his hand (bumps fists) a hostage, also to reassure him. At the same time, the sounds of explosions are audible not only from (Hamas) gunshots, but also from artillery.
Shlomi Ziv, Andrey Kozlov Is Almog Meir Jan They had been in the hands of Hamas since they were kidnapped on October 7, at the SuperNova music festival.
The special operation was “prepared for several weeks” and advanced on Saturday morning, in broad daylight and in one of the most remote areas of the Gaza Strip, where there are several camps housing displaced people. The rescue of four hostages was the result of a mission considered “heroic” (by the Israeli Minister of Defense) in which not only the intelligence services participated (ShinBet) as well as the elite Yamam force.
Noa Argamani, 25, Almog Meir Jan, 21, Andrey Kozlov, 27, and Shlomi Ziv, the oldest of the four, 40, had been kidnapped by Hamas during the Supernova electronic music festival, on a day October history. 7, 2023.
Images had already been released of the moment when hostage Noa Argamani was placed in the helicopter that would take her to her family.
EXCLUSIVE IMAGES from the helicopter that brought Noa home from Hamas captivity: pic.twitter.com/PQypAUwRba
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) June 8, 2024
Source: Observadora
