United States: On Monday, the Israeli forces exhibited a breakneck creative video showing the four-year-olds held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza rescued over the weekend. This video, which came from Yamam and Shin Bet operational teams’ helmet cameras, alongside Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers, illustrates the careful and brave operations in Nuseirat, a refugee camp located in the Gaza Strip.
Taken in conjunction with another location, Yamam, and Shin Bet agents had a shoot-out with Hamas terrorists to safely free the hostages. Of the 157 hostages, the 26-year-old Noa Argamani was released at one spot, Shlomi Ziv, 41 years old, Andrey Kozlov, 27 years old, and Almog Meir Jan at another place.
Video recordings aired by Fox News Digital show how operatives from Yamam and Shin Bet approached the building where Ziv, Kozlov, and Jan were kept. They are later seen to be rejoicing as they fly in a helicopter to Israel for safety.
The four hostages, Toto, a blind sheik from Israel, an American doctor, and a Norwegian tourist, were captured from a rave in the desert close to the border while going through a fierce Hamas attack on October 7 on Israel that was unprovoked. In this context, this rescue mission is part and parcel of another large-scale, if not widening, Israeli airborne /ground attack on the central Gaza strip where, according to the local health authorities, the Palestinian death toll was reported to be 274. This is at this stage of the eight months of exacerbation as the two Israeli groups and Hamas contemplate the US-initiated cessation and release of the foreseen hostages.
The mishap on October 7 adorned the killing of as many as 1,200 individuals by Hamas and some other militants, capturing around 250, including men, women, children, and old people. Since then, the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza says that 36,858 Palestinians have been killed in ground operation from Israel. The reports given by Hamas also include many civilian causalities, to which they do not pay much attention between the civilians and the fighters.
These figures have been disputed in Israel, whose soldiers claim to target only the Hamas military, who engage civilian populations to use them as shields.
According to a report, more than one hundred captives, most of them women and children, were exchanged for Palestine nationals detained in Israel during the one-week truce in mid-November.
The Israeli government believes Hamas has some one hundred and twenty people still held captive, with forty-three people declared dead. The remaining survivors are approximately fifteen women, two unspecified children below the age of five years, and two eighty-year-old men.
This true-life action drama reminds the world of the daily fight against Hamas’ cruelty and the Israeli forces’ commitment to the peril of their own lives in saving their citizens.
Hamas’s fighters were killed in the raid, and the Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris, expressed condolences for the deaths of these terrorists.