The rescue operation came amid a major Israeli air and ground offensive in central Gaza that has killed and wounded hundreds of Palestinians.
The four captives rescued by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip on Saturday had been abducted from a desert rave near the border during Hamas’ wide-ranging assault into Israel on October 7.Noa Argamani, 25, appeared in a series of videos that captured the painful trajectory of their plight.
And then there was a third video, in which she appeared in family photos in the background as her mother, a Chinese immigrant to Israel who has stage four brain cancer, pleaded with her captors to release her only child so she could see her before she dies. The rescue operation came amid a major Israeli air and ground offensive in central Gaza that has killed and wounded hundreds of Palestinians, including at least 94 on Saturday.Less is publicly known about the other three hostages who were rescued on Saturday.
Shlomi Ziv, 40, from a farming community in northern Israel, was working as an usher and had gone to the party with two friends who were both killed, the Times of Israel reported.The Israel Hayom newspaper said he and his wife of 17 years had been trying to have children. Yonatan Levi, a friend of Ms Argamani, described her as a smart, free spirit who loved parties and travelling and was studying computer science.
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