The Israeli army announces that it rescued four live hostages in Gaza: these are their identities

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In “a difficult daytime special operation in Nuseirat, four Israeli hostages were freed” on Saturday morning, the army said in a statement.

They are Noa Argamani, 26 years old; Almog Meir Jan, 22; Andrey Kozlov, 27; and Shlomi Ziv, 41all “kidnapped” by Hamas on October 7 at the Nova electronic music festival, according to the military.

The hostages, according to the same source, were “rescued” in two different locations in the center of Nuseirat.

“They are in good medical condition and were transferred to the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashome” to carry out further examinations on their physical condition, the army said.

“Noa, Almog, Andrey and Shlomi, we are very happy to welcome you home”congratulated the Israeli Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant, in a message on the X network, describing the military operation as “heroic.”

The Hostage Families Forum called it a “miraculous success.”

In images from local television, Noa Argamani is seen smiling, speaking on the phone with Israeli President Isaac Herzog.

The video of this young woman shouting on October 7 “Don’t kill me!” to Hamas fighters went around the world.

His mother, who has brain cancer, is very sick.

The Israeli army had indicated hours earlier this Saturday that it was carrying out operations against “terrorist infrastructures in the Nuseirat area”, north of the city of Deir al Balah, located in the center of the Palestinian enclave.

A spokesman for the Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al Balah, Dr. Khalil al Dakran, reported the deaths of 15 people in “intense Israeli shelling” which, according to him, left dozens injured.

In a televised statement, Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari spoke of an operation “in the heart of the civilian neighborhood with armed terrorists” and reported that one soldier had been “seriously wounded.”

“The message sent this morning to Hamas is clear: we are determined to bring all the hostages home,” he said.

The Israeli police announced on Saturday the death of one of its officers during an operation in which four hostages held in the Gaza Strip were rescued.

“The Israel Police and Border Police announce with great sadness and pain the death of officer Arnon Zmora (…) who was mortally wounded in the operation to return the hostages this morning in Gaza,” the police stated in a statement. release.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu He stated this Saturday that “Israel does not surrender to terrorism” after the rescue of four hostages alive in a successful operation by security forces in Nuseirat, in the center of the Gaza Strip.

“Once again, they have shown that Israel does not surrender to terrorism and acts with boundless creativity and courage to bring our kidnapped people home,” he said.

Netanyahu also saluted “the brave fighters who risked their lives today to save lives,” says a statement from his office accompanied by a photo in which he is seen supervising the rescue operation in the command room together with the Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant, and the chiefs of the General Staff and the Shin Bet, among others.

Israeli bombings have been concentrated in recent days in the center of the territory, especially in Nuseirat, where one of the attacks hit a school of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) on Thursday and left 37 dead.according to a local hospital.

The Israeli army claimed that it had bombed that center because it housed, hidden, “a Hamas base,” and on Friday it claimed to have killed “17 terrorists.”

The Palestinian Islamist movement accused the Israeli military of spreading “false information” and claimed that three of the people Israel said were dead were still alive.

UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini He reproached Israel for having bombed this school in Nuseirat, in the center of the territory, “without prior warning,” despite the fact that “6,000 people displaced” by the war were taking refuge there.

Before announcing the release of the hostages, the Israeli army indicated that it was attacking “terrorist infrastructure” in the Nuseirat sector.

A spokesman for the Al Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir al Balah, near Nuseirat, announced the deaths of 15 people from “heavy Israeli shelling.”

Witnesses reported intense fighting between the army and Palestinian militiamen in the Al Bureij and Al Maghazi refugee camps.