Four Hostages rescued from Gaza
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Noa Argamani, 26, Almog Meir Jan, 22, Andrei Kozlov, 27, and Shlomi Ziv, 41, were freed during a "high-risk, complex mission" from two separate buildings in the Nuseirat area, the Israel Defense Forces said. Hamas claims more than two hundred Palestinians were killed by Israeli attacks in the same area as the raid took place. The IDF said the released hostages were all in good health, and they were later pictured embracing family members at a medical centre near Tel Aviv.
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(Photo: Almog Meir Jan, a rescued hostage embraces a loved one Credit: Israeli Army handout via REUTERS)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and we begin the program in |
| 0:01.4 | New Zower live from the BBC World Service in London. |
| 0:08.2 | I'm Rebecca Kersby and we begin the program in Israel where earlier today the military announced that four |
| 0:15.5 | hostages taken by Hamas fighters from the Nova Music Festival on October the seventh |
| 0:21.0 | and kept prisoner for the past eight months have been rescued in a special forces raid in Central Gaza. |
| 0:28.0 | A number of Palestinians were also killed during that raid in the Nusurat refugee camp where there were fierce gun battles |
| 0:35.4 | more on that in a moment all four of the rescued hostages three men and one |
| 0:40.0 | woman are said to be in fairly good medical condition and |
| 0:43.6 | Prime Minister Benjamin Nesin Yahoo praised the military forces involved. |
| 0:48.4 | This operation required ingenuity and courage of the highest degree and our soldiers performed in an unmatchable way. |
| 0:55.0 | We're committed to getting the release of all the hostages |
| 0:58.0 | and we expect Hamas to release them all, |
| 1:00.0 | but if they don't, we'll do whatever it takes to get them all back home. |
| 1:05.0 | Kamas is committing war crimes every day, including the holding of these hostages. |
| 1:11.0 | Our soldiers are performing in the most valiant and moral way to end this war with a |
| 1:17.4 | victory against these killers and against these kidnappers and we shall prevail. |
| 1:23.0 | Well, there were emotional scenes as families were reunited. |
| 1:28.0 | Oret Mayor is the mother of one of the rescued hostages, Almog-Magg-Mare Chan. |
| 1:33.0 | Thank you for bringing my son to me, to us. |
| 1:42.0 | I'm so excited they could hug him today. |
| 1:47.0 | There are still 120 hostages in Gaza. |
| 1:55.0 | And we want a deal now. |
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