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ISRAEL – Cries of joy and applause resounded on the Tel Aviv beach this Saturday, June 8, when a lifeguard announced the release by the Israeli army of four hostages held by Hamas, as you can see in our video at the top of the article.
Noa Argamani, 26, Almog Meir Jan, 22, Andrey Kozlov, 27, and Shlomi Ziv, 41, were kidnapped from the site of the Nova electro music festival.
The hostages were freed “a difficult special daytime operation in Nousseirat”, writes the Israeli army in a press release. They are ” in good health ” but were transferred to the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, near Tel Aviv, “to carry out additional medical examinations”. This “difficult, high-risk mission” took place in the center of the Gaza Strip, said Daniel Hagari, spokesperson for the Israeli army, an area targeted by intense bombardments for several days.
Pressure on Netanyahu
In the ninth month of the war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under strong pressure abroad for his conduct of the war in Gaza, but also internally with that of the families of the kidnapped hostages during the unprecedented attack carried out on Israeli soil by Hamas on October 7, which sparked hostilities.
Israeli strikes have focused in recent days on the center of the Gaza Strip and in particular on Nousseirat where one of them, on a school of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), left 37 dead on Thursday. according to a local hospital.
Accusing Hamas of having purposely used this school to launch attacks, the Israeli army said it killed during this strike “17 terrorists”. Hamas, which declared that 14 children had died, denounced ” fake news “.
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