The return of hostages sparked relief in Israel. But in Gaza, the rescue mission emerged as one of the deadliest days for Palestinians since the war began.
JERUSALEM — Israelis, grinding into their ninth month of a war that has seemingly devolved into a military quagmire, a diplomatic stalemate and an object of global condemnation, finally had reason to cheer Saturday, and cheer they did. Minutes after news broke that four of the remaining Israeli hostages had been safely plucked from the Gaza Strip in a daytime raid, cheers erupted on sidewalks and beaches, and crowds formed outside the hospitals where the hostages were whisked.
On television, anchors cried during their breaking news alerts, as did Israeli President Isaac Herzog during his call to Noa Argamani, one of the best known of more than 250 hostages taken to Gaza during the Hamas attacks of Oct. 7. Like Argamani, the three other hostages rescued Saturday were dragged from the Nova music festival. Almog Meir Jan, 22, from the central Israel town of Or Yehuda, attended the festival a day before he was scheduled to start a new tech job.
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