The special forces freed four people in a daylight raid on Nuseirat camp in central Gaza on Saturday
Israeli special forces were disguised as Palestinian refugees looking for a place to live during last week’s operation to rescue hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, ABC News reported on Tuesday, citing sources.
Israeli commandos rescued four people from two separate buildings in Nuseirat, a sprawling refugee camp in central Gaza on Saturday. The hostages had been held in Gaza since October 7 of last year, when Hamas launched a surprise cross-border attack on Israel, in which some 1,200 people were killed and 250 kidnapped.
Israeli security sources told ABC that special forces were already in position near the buildings where the hostages were being held before they were given the “go” command by Israeli forces. The mission took place at 11am local time.
The helicopters carrying the freed hostages and wounded officers from the Israeli Police National Counterterrorism Unit, which participated in the rescue operation, landed at Sheba Medical Center in Israel starting at 12:15pm and the last helicopter landed at 12:45pm.
The hostages – Almog Meir Jan (age 21), Noa Argamani (25), Andrey Kozlov (27) and Shlomi Ziv (40) – were in “good medical condition” when they were rescued, IDF officials stated.
Kozlov, a Russian-Israeli dual citizen, was working at the Nova festival as a security guard when Hamas launched a surprise cross-border attack on Israel.
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