Israeli military says it has captured four Palestinians are being held in Gaza were rescued
Army claims that four captives four captives – Noa Argamani (25, Almog Meir Jan 21; Andrey Kozlov at 27, and Shlomi Ziv 40 – are “good health”.
Al Jazeera
08/06/2024
The Israeli military claims its troops have saved four prisoners from central Gaza while it increased attacks throughout the occupied and bombarded area.
The news on Saturday came just as Palestinian health officials announced that at the very least 55 Palestinians were killed and scores injured as a result of Israeli attack in the central Gaza.
The military said that the four prisoners four – Noa Argamani 25, Almog Meir Jan. 21; Andrey Kozlov 27; and Shlomi Ziv, 40 – were rescued from a music event in the course of the attack Palestinian group Hamas was a part of in the southern part of Israel on the 7th of October.
The victims were found to be in “good medical state” and were admitted to the hospital for medical check-ups after the “complex morning procedure” located in Gaza’s Nuseirat. They were rescued at two different areas in the heart of Nuseirat It said.
The Saturday’s rescue was the biggest rescue of captives alive since the 7th of October The total number of captives rescued to seven.
Israeli military spokesperson Daniel Hagari said during a press event that Special Forces had been trained over “weeks” and received “intensive training” in order to complete the mission, in which an officer of the Israeli army was critically injured.
Israeli troops were “under firing inside the structures and were on their way to Gaza” According to Hagari who added that Israel “will not cease fighting” to free all prisoners who remain. The previous week the Israeli military announced that 120 prisoners remained in Gaza which included 41 prisoners that they believed to be dead.
Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu said he has had a conversation with one of the prisoners rescued and he told him that officials didn’t forget about them in the 246 days of war.
The Israeli officials discussed the scores of Palestinians who were killed in the operation, according to Imran Khan from Al Jazeera, covering Jordan’s Amman due to the fact that there was no mention of the fact that the Israeli government has blocked Al Jazeera from reporting from Israel.
“The Israelis are simply not discussing the costs of this operation. They won’t talk about it since they are trying to present this as a huge success. Netanyahu was under a tremendous amount of pressure. The Hostages Families’ Forum is extremely clear that a ceasefire is the most effective and most logical alternative to free all of prisoners who are in Gaza returned.”
In an announcement that was released by Gaza’s Government Media Office said the Israeli army initiated “an extraordinary brutal assault” on the Nuseirat refugee camp “leaving hundreds of wounded and martyrs on the street” in addition to continuing “its aggressiveness against all the areas in Gaza’s Central Governorate [Deir el-Balah]”.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza has released pictures of bloody patients including children, who were found in the corridors of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah following an Israeli military claimed to be targeting “terrorist” facilities in what was believed to be a part of the rescue mission.
Israeli assaults in Gaza since the beginning of the conflict have claimed the lives of at least 36,801 Palestinians and wounded 83.680 as well as thousands more buried beneath the rubble, and presumed dead. Israel started its offensive following the Hamas-led attacks in which around 1,140 people were killed and 244 were taken prisoner.
Hamas released nearly half of prisoners in exchange to the release Israel of a number of Palestinians who were held in Israeli jails. This was an agreement negotiated through Qatar along with America. United States that allowed for an unofficial peace agreement in November.
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