On Saturday morning, in a joint IDF, ISA and Israel Police (Yamam) complex, special, daytime operation in Nuseirat, four Israeli hostages were rescued.
Noa Argamani (25), Almog Meir Jan (21), Andrey Kozlov (27), and Shlomi Ziv (40), were kidnapped by the Hamas terrorist organization from the 'Nova' music festival on October 7th.
The hostages were rescued by the IDF, ISA and Yamam counterterrorism forces from two separate locations in the heart of Nuseirat.
During the battle, Arnon Zamora, the Yamam (counterterrorism) officer who led the rescuing force was injured. He later died of his wounds.
They are in good medical condition and have been transferred to the Sheba Tel-Hashomer Medical Center for further medical examinations.
"The security forces will continue to make every effort to bring the hostages home," the statement stressed.
Noa Argamani, who was rescued Saturday morning in a complex and daring operation from the Nuseirat "refugee camp" in Gaza, arrived Saturday evening at Tel Aviv's Ichilov Hospital, where her mother Liora, who is battling terminal cancer, is hospitalized.
Noa was held on the first floor of a building in Nuseirat, a few hundred meters from the building in which three other hostages - Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov, and Shlomi Ziv - were held.
Speaking to her family, Noa said that on Saturday morning, she heard loud knocks on her door.
"She told me that 'out of nowhere' suddenly they told her that it's the IDF. 'We came to rescue you.' She was in shock," Argamani's relative Asaf Shahibi at Sheba Tel Hashomer, where the released hostages were originally taken.
After Noa was released, she was documented embracing her father, in tears. Speaking Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, she said, "I am very emotional, I haven't spoken Hebrew in such a long time."
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