Families elated as hostages rescued

FOUR Israeli hostages kidnapped by Hamas from the Supernova music festival during the October 7 terror attacks were rescued in a daring daytime operation yesterday.

- Tony Whitfield

Israeli special forces simultaneously raided two Hamas sites some 650ft apart in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp and a firefight erupted as the hostages were evacuated, leading to heavy airstrikes in the heart of the residential neighbourhood.

At least 94 Palestinians including children were killed, while one officer of the elite Yamam counter-terrorism unit died of his wounds.

At one Palestinian family home, Noa Argamani, 25, was found after 245 days in captivity.

In a notorious video released by the terror group she had been seen on the back of a motorcycle wedged between her two Hamas captors, screaming: “Don’t kill me!” She also stretched her arms out toward her boyfriend, Avinatan Or, still being held in Gaza.

It was one of the first Hamas videos released during the massacre of 364 partygoers at the desert rave.