The three males and one female hostages were kidnapped by Hamas-led militants on Oct 7.
JERUSALEM – Israeli forces rescued four hostages held by Hamas since October in a raid in the central Gaza Strip on June 8, while over 200 Palestinians were killed in airstrikes in the same area, according to Hamas officials, in one of the bloodiest Israeli assaults of the war.
Israeli forces returned fire, including with airstrikes, the spokesman, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, added.Israel named the rescued hostages as Ms Noa Argamani, 25, Mr Almog Meir Jan, 21, Mr Andrey Kozlov, 27, and Mr Shlomi Ziv, 40.Poland praised the rescue of the hostages and said that one of them is a dual Israeli-Polish citizen.
A video of Ms Argamani receiving a telephone call from Israeli President Isaac Herzog was distributed by his office. “It was like a horror movie but this was a real massacre. Israeli drones and warplanes fired all night randomly at people’s houses and at people who tried to flee the area,” said Mr Ziad, 45, a paramedic and resident of Nuseirat, who gave only his first name.
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