Health officials say medics were overwhelmed by fatalities after operation to free quarter captured on October 7
Israel’s military freed four hostages in Gaza on Saturday after a daylight operation in Nuseirat in the centre of the enclave that local officials said killed and injured hundreds of Palestinians. The rescue operation was the largest conducted by Israel since the start of the war against Hamas. The rescue of one woman and three men — Noa Argamani, Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov and Shlomi Ziv — brings the number of hostages brought back alive by Israel’s military to seven.
“This is the time for unity and not for division,” he wrote on the social media platform X. In response, Gantz issued a statement saying Israel’s challenges remained unchanged and that “we must consider responsibly how it is best and possible to continue from here”. Hagari said the hostages had been rescued from two locations about 200 metres apart in Nuseirat in simultaneous raids by special forces at around 11am local time.
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