The liberation of the 4 hostages told by witnesses and resistance…
After 9 months of war in the Gaza Strip, during which it mobilized all its military and intelligence capabilities, as well as all Western American support, in search of prisoners captured by the resistance during the large and sudden attack on October 7, 2023, the The Israeli army managed to free 4 hostages during an assault operation, accompanied by violent artillery and air attacks, resulting in more than 225 Palestinian deaths, most of them women and children.
The occupation called the operation “Operation Arnon” and “Arnon Zamora”, the commander of the force that participated in the operation was killed during the operation itself, while the occupation Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described it as a heroic operation, and US President Joe Biden blessed it, ignoring the massacre carried out by the occupation and the lives of the martyrs who fell due to Israeli bombing.
For his part, in his first comment on the operation, Abu Obeida, spokesperson for the Al-Qassam Brigades, said that the occupation had committed a war crime by attacking a popular market in the center of Nuseirat camp, and that its forces they killed other prisoners during the process of liberating the above four.
According to what was published by the Israeli media, the four freed people were above ground in two civilian buildings in the heart of Nuseirat, in the center of the Gaza Strip. According to Israeli Channel 12, Noa Argamani (25 years old) was alone in one building, Almoa Meir (21 years old), and Andrei Kozlov (27 years old) and Shlomi Ziv (40 years old), in another location, just 200 meters away of distance.
According to Palestinian eyewitnesses, Israeli forces who participated in the rescue of the four prisoners infiltrated the Nuseirat camp via a truck used to transport humanitarian aid, and this was confirmed by the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.
Tel Aviv has always accused the resistance of using hospitals, ambulances, medical and rescue centers and UNRWA as centers for military action, and used this pretext as justification for the operation.
According to Israeli media, “forces used a closed transport truck and a civilian vehicle in the infiltration operation into the Nuseirat camp.”
Israeli media say the forces engaged in a complex battle, during which the group’s commander, Arnon Zamora, was seriously injured, before the occupation announced his death.
During the evacuation attempt, the vehicle in which the occupation forces were traveling with 3 hostages broke down due to gunfire from resistance fighters, while Seventh Brigade fighters fired dozens of shells from tanks to form a belt around the besieged forces, according to Israeli channel 13.
Fighters from the 13th Brigade, a parachute patrol and fighters from the 7th Brigade also joined in creating a corridor to rescue the now almost besieged forces.
The violent air, sea and artillery bombardments of the occupation forces caused a massacre in the Nuseirat camp which cost the lives of 225 martyrs and 400 wounded, while hospitals in the Gaza Strip do not have the capacity to accommodate new wounded in the light of their availability.
Yesterday Saturday, the Israeli army said in a statement on
The official Israeli radio and television station published a video showing the transfer of detainees from the Nuseirat camp to the helicopter that was waiting for them on the beach in Gaza and then took them to Israel.
American help
CNN reported that an American cell in Israel contributed to the release of 4 hostages from the Nuseirat camp in the center of the Gaza Strip.
CNN quoted an unnamed US official as saying the cell “supported efforts to rescue 4 hostages and cooperated with Israeli forces in the rescue process.”
For his part, US President Joe Biden welcomed the return of four Israeli hostages rescued alive in Gaza.
Biden pledged during a press conference not to stop working until all the hostages have returned to their homes and a ceasefire is reached.
While the American president did not mention the victims killed by the occupation during its operation.
For its part, Hamas said Saturday that Tel Aviv’s announcement of the release of 4 of its prisoners in Gaza “will not change its strategic failure in the Gaza Strip,” and vowed to increase the number of Israeli prisoners, as it has done in the Jabalia camp in the operation in the north of the Gaza Strip.
He added in a statement via Telegram: “What the occupation army announced regarding the release of a certain number of its prisoners in Gaza, after more than 8 months of aggression in which it used all military, security and technological, and during which he committed all the crimes of massacres, extermination, siege and starvation, will not change his failed strategy in the Gaza Strip.”
He added: “Our valiant resistance still maintains the largest number of prisoners in its possession, and is capable of increasing the number of prisoners, as it did in the recent heroic capture operation it carried out in Jabalia camp at the end of the month last”.
She underlined that “what has been revealed by the American and Jewish media about American participation in the criminal operation carried out today once again demonstrates the complicit role of the American administration and its full participation in the war crimes committed in the Gaza Strip” .
Hamas stressed that this also demonstrates “the falsity of the positions declared by the US administration regarding the humanitarian situation and its concern for the lives of civilians”.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel’s war in Gaza has left more than 120,000 Palestinians dead and injured, most of them children and women, and nearly 10,000 missing amid massive destruction and famine that has left dozens dead. people.
Israel continues this war, ignoring a Security Council resolution calling for an immediate halt to the fighting and ordering the Court of Justice to halt the attack on Rafah and take immediate measures to prevent acts of “genocide” and “improve the humanitarian situation ” in Gaza.
June 10, 2024 – © Reproduction possible WITH EXPLICIT CONSENT of the CONTROPIANO EDITORIAL TEAM
Last edit: June 10, 2024, 10:11 am
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