Israeli military: Four hostages rescued in central Gaza
Newshour
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🗓️ 8 June 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Israeli security forces say they have rescued four hostages from two separate locations during a special operation in Nuseirat, in central Gaza. They have been named as Noa Argamani, Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov and Shlomi Ziv. All had been abducted by Hamas from the Nova music festival on 7 October. They are said to be in good medical condition and have been transferred to hospital. Gaza's Al-Aqsa hospital says at least 50 Palestinians - including children - were killed during the Israeli operation. Also in the programme: the astronaut who took the ground-breaking first colour photo of Earth from space, William Anders, has died, and as Unesco celebrates Italian opera, we listen in.
(Photo: People react outside a medical centre, after the military say four hostages rescued alive from the central Gaza Strip on Saturday, in Ramat Gan, Israel 8 June, 2024. Credit: Marko Djurica/Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Newshour live from the BBC World Service in London. |
| 0:08.1 | I'm Rebecca Kessby and we begin with some breaking news from Israel. |
| 0:13.0 | Within the past couple of hours, the Israeli security forces are saying that four |
| 0:17.5 | hostages taken by Hamas fighters on October the 7th from the Nova Music Festival have been rescued. |
| 0:25.0 | It's understood it was during a special operation in Central Gaza. |
| 0:30.0 | All four, three men and one woman are said to be in a fairly good medical condition. |
| 0:35.9 | Details are still emerging, but we can hear a little bit of sound now from the moment one |
| 0:39.9 | hostage, Noah Agamani, whose 25 was reunited with her dad. |
| 0:47.0 | Emotional scenes there well let's get the very |
| 0:54.8 | latest news now with lieutenant colonel Peter learner who's a spokesman for the |
| 0:59.7 | Israeli defense forces he joins us live colonel thank you very much for coming on. |
| 1:04.0 | First of all, what can you tell us about these hostages and the raid? |
| 1:11.0 | Thanks, Rebecca. |
| 1:12.0 | Yes, indeed, in the early hours. Well, in the early hour of |
| 1:14.0 | not so early at 11 a.m. the IDF together with the Israeli |
| 1:17.8 | security agency and our special counter-terrorism police force |
| 1:21.4 | to the Yamam got the green light after weeks of preparation and |
| 1:25.2 | planning on an intelligence-based operation to rescue Noah Argamani, Al-Mogmeir, Shlamyiv and Andre Kuzlov. |
| 1:35.0 | The operation was a realization of an operational plan based on intelligence that had been |
| 1:41.1 | gathered and after realizing that they could actually be rescued alive. |
| 1:47.5 | The operations were conducted in the in broad daylight in the heart of Nusserat in the Central Gaza Strip. Our forces came under extensive fire and on the extraction |
| 2:00.8 | also one of our officers was wounded critically on the way out. |
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