Four people, whose lives were turned upside down on October 7, 2023 at the Tribe of Nova festival, were saved during a deadly Israeli raid. But the Israeli Prime Minister is now trying to resolve a political crisis.
They were kidnapped on October 7, 2023 at the Tribe of Nova electro music festival in southern Israel. Four Israeli hostages were rescued by the IDF during an operation carried out in the Nusseirat refugee camp, in the center of the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army announced on Saturday.
“Noa Argamani (25 years old), Almog Meir Jan (21 years old), Andrey Kozlov (27 years old) and Shlomi Ziv (40 years old) were rescued during a special operation carried out in broad daylight by the IDF, the Shin Bet and the Israeli police in two separate locations in the heart of Nusseirat after being kidnapped by Hamas during the Nova music festival.explains the Israeli army on its X account.
The day their lives changed
That day, Noa Argamani was filmed begging the terrorists not to kill her as she was put on a motorcycle, trapped between two terrorists. His companion, also kidnapped, is still detained, according to Le Parisien.
This October 7, 2023, Almog Meir Jan also went to the festival, in the Negev desert, to relax, on the eve of his start in a Tech company.
After the death commandos arrived on site, the young man called his mother. He explained that he had been hiding and promised to give her news every half hour.
Contact was then broken. Andrey Kozlov and Schlomi Ziv, the last two released hostages, were festival security agents. The oldest, Schlomi Ziv, a forty-year-old decorator in the city, was there as an extra, to give a hand to his wife’s cousin.
Under pressure from Gantz
The four hostages freed “are in good health and have been transferred to Sheba Medical Center in Tel-HaShomer for additional medical examinations,” specifies the Israeli army. But an Israeli special forces soldier was killed during the operation.
Hamas announced on Saturday a toll of at least 210 dead and more than 400 injured in these Israeli attacks of a rare scale on the Nousseirat camp. “We will not stop working until all the hostages have returned home”reacted, Joe Biden, in Paris.
This resignation which worries Netanyahu
The draft ceasefire agreement, defended by the United States, also provides for the release of all the hostages. It has still not been validated by Hamas. But Benyamin Netaynahou has another priority to manage in truth.
The Israeli Prime Minister urged his rival Benny Gantz on Saturday evening not to leave the “emergency government”, despite the dissensions that emerged between the two men over the post-war period in Gaza. Benny Gantz had canceled, a little earlier, the press conference he was to give this Saturday to announce his resignation, after the announcement of the release of the hostages.
In the event of the fall of the government, he is favored to form a new coalition.
