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BREAKING: Four hostages rescued from Gaza, Yamam officer killed Be’er Sheva and Petach Tikvah Communities kept Shabbos for the First Time in Their Merit for the safe return of the hostages |
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Four Israeli hostages were rescued alive from Hamas captivity on Shabbos in a daring daylight operation in the central Gaza Strip, the military announced. Noa Argamani, 26, Almog Meir Jan, 21, Andrey Kozlov, 27, and Shlomi Ziv, 40, were abducted from the Supernova festival near the community of Re’im on October 7, when some 3,000 Hamas-led terrorists killed 1,200 people and took 251 hostages in a murderous rampage in southern Israel. Officers from the police’s elite Yamam counter-terrorism unit, along with Shin Bet agents, simultaneously raided two Hamas buildings in central Gaza’s Nuseirat, according to a joint statement. Argamani was rescued at one site, while Meir Jan, Kozlov, and Ziv were at the second location. Hundreds more soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces participated in the operation. IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said the hostages were rescued by special forces while “under fire.” A Yamam officer was critically wounded in the operation and brought to an Israeli hospital, but died shortly after. Amid the operation, heavy airstrikes were carried out in the area against Hamas sites and in support of the ground troops, the military said. Hamas health authorities reported at least 50 Palestinians were killed, without specifying how many were combatants. The rescued hostages, who had been in Hamas captivity for eight months, were all in good condition, according to initial medical assessments. They were taken by helicopter from the Strip to hospitals in Israel for further evaluation. Nuseirat is one of the few areas of Gaza where ground troops had not yet maneuvered into during the IDF’s ground offensive against the Hamas terror group. Hagari said that the rescue had been in the works for “many weeks,” with “quality intelligence and complex operational planning.” “The intelligence for this operation was very complex to obtain,” he said. In Be’er Sheva, a group of 30 boys who had never kept Shabbos observed it for the first time this past Shabbos. and also in petach tikvah One of the rescued hostages is from Be’er Sheva, and the boys dedicated their Shabbos observance as a zechus (merit) for the hostages’ safe return. Additionally, in Petach Tikvah, an entire building kept Shabbos for the first time, also dedicating their observance as a merit for the safe return of the hostages. |
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