Israeli special forces have rescued four hostages who had been kidnapped from the Nova music festival on 7 October and held in Gaza for eight months.
Israeli authorities released images of a smiling Argamani greeting her father and said she had spoken on the phone to the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and president, Isaac Herzog.The IDF spokesperson R Adm Daniel Hagari said all four of the freed hostages were healthy and were undergoing medical tests in an Israeli hospital where they would be reunited with their families.
Saturday’s operation, the first successful military mission to free hostages since February, brings the number of hostages rescued by the Israeli military to seven. There are still 120 hostages in the Gaza Strip, a third of whom are believed to have died.