Israel rescues 4 hostages kidnapped by Hamas
Israel successfully rescued four hostages kidnapped by Hamas during the October 7 attacks. The operation, the largest since the war began, freed three men and one woman in central Gaza. Israel Police ‘Yamam' (National Counter-Terrorism Unit) Squad Commander, Chief Inspector Arnon Zamora was killed during the mission. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant praised the bravery of the troops and reaffirmed Israel's commitment to rescuing the remaining hostages. #HostageRescue #IDF #Israel
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00:00said there were four hostages rescued today. There are three men and one woman and Israel
00:04has described this as a complex daytime operation. They said that it took weeks of planning. They had
00:10to train their military for it and that they rescued them from central Gaza, from Nusrat,
00:14in two buildings and that they escaped under gunfire. Now this is the largest rescue operation
00:21for hostages since the war began. There are four of them in total. Israel's rescued about
00:25seven hostages, two men and another woman were rescued in two separate operations. Now one of
00:30these hostages, Noah Argamami, her face has been widely recognized since the beginning of the war.
00:36After she was abducted from the festival there was a video that surfaced of her on a bike being
00:40taken, abducted into Gaza. Her screaming, her pained face screaming, don't kill me. Her mother
00:46also has stage four brain cancer and in April she released the video pleading for her daughter to be
00:51released so she could see her one more time before she dies. And so this is a very emotional day for
00:56all of these families as well as people in Israel. But there are still 120 hostages believed to be in
01:01Gaza and the military has said that about 43 of them are already confirmed to be dead. And on the
01:08political front Sam, the war cabinet minister Benny Gantz had been due to make an announcement
01:14later about his future in Benjamin Netanyahu's government but this has changed we understand.
01:18What more to be known?
01:23That's right, today June 8th was the last day of Gantz's ultimatum to Netanyahu that if he didn't
01:27change the war plan that he was going to resign from the war cabinet. He was supposed to make an
01:32announcement this evening. We think it's because of the hostage rescue that he has postponed this
01:36but people are still expecting him to speak whether it is later today or tomorrow. He'll
01:40likely talk in the coming days and there are a lot of people who think that he might in fact resign.
01:45He had given Netanyahu this ultimatum saying that there are six points that he needed to see
01:50including the release of the hostages, Hamas no longer being able to rule Gaza, the demilitarization
01:55of Gaza as well as an international administration made up of the EU, America, Palestinian and Arab
02:02partners to rule the day after. Now Gantz is seen as one of the more center members of the war
02:07cabinet and while analysts I've spoken to said it's not going to crush the war cabinet, it won't
02:11have a massive change, it would still be losing that more moderate voice if he does in fact resign.
02:17Okay Sam thanks very much for that update.