Israeli forces rescue 4 hostages who are in ‘good medical condition’

June 10, 2024 — SpaceWar.com reports: “Israel Defense Forces freed four hostages from two locations within the Nuseirat refugee camp in Central Gaza on Saturday, the IDF announced.

Shlomi Ziv, 40; Almong Meir Jan, 21; Andrey Kozlov, 27; and Noa Argamani, 25; were liberated from Hamas captors who kidnapped them during the Oct. 7 attack on the Nova Music Festival in Israel. Three other hostages were previously rescued.

Argamani’s Hamas captors posted a viral video of Argamani being placed on the back of a motorcycle and taken into Gaza by her kidnappers during the attack. She was attending the music festival with her boyfriend, who also was kidnapped.

Last month, Hamas published video featuring the voice of Argamani in which she urged Israel to bring about her release.

On Saturday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with Argamani, who said in the call: ‘I haven’t spoken Hebrew in a very long time,’ after Netanyahu asked how she was feeling.

‘For one moment, we haven’t given up on you. I don’t know if you believed it, but we had full belief,’ Netanyahy said.

The IDF, special forces and Israeli intelligence rescued the four hostages during the operation as heavy artillery fire occurred.

‘They are in good medical condition and have been transferred to the ‘Sheba’ Tel-HaShomer Medical Center for further medical examinations,’ the IDF announced…”  (Benjamin Netanyahu has stated: “If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence.  If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel.” 

Israel does all that it can to protect civilians – Hamas uses civilians to protect their missiles; placing them next to schools and in residential neighborhoods.)

Doctor who treated rescued hostages: They were beaten while in captivity

June 11, 2024 — Israel National News reports: “Dr. Itai Pessach of Sheba Hospital in Tel Hashomer, who is in charge of medical treatment for the four Israeli hostages who were rescued on Saturday, told CNN in an interview on Monday that they were beaten while in Hamas captivity in Gaza.

‘It was a harsh, harsh, experience, with a lot of abuse, almost every day,’ he said, adding, ‘Every hour, both physical, mental, and other types, and that is something that is beyond comprehension.’

Pessach said the eight months spent in captivity ‘left a significant mark on their health’ and despite appearing in good condition initially, they are all malnourished.

‘They had no protein, so their muscles are extremely wasted, there is damage to some other systems because of that,’ he told CNN…”  (Nolan Finley, Editorial Page Editor for The Detroit News tells of watching “Bearing Witness to the October 7^th Massacre” that was shown by the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Israeli Consulate to the Midwest.  The majority of the film was compiled from the cell phones and body cameras of the Hamas terrorists as they carried out this massacre.  He states: What we saw Sunday night was excruciating to watch, harder still to discuss. When it was over most of us walked to our cars barely speaking.

Imagine watching the most gruesome horror flick, without the benefit of knowing the gore on screen is make-believe. In this movie, the blood is real. The bodies are real. The evil is real…

More sickening for me than the gruesome images is the absolute joy with which the killers went about their sadistic work. I expected to see angry, frothing mad men. Instead, these killers are happy. They looked like gleeful young men celebrating a soccer win…

And this, I’m told, is the PG version. It doesn’t depict the mass rapes and mutilation of babies that was reported, but nothing in video suggests such depravity is beyond the pall for the marauders…

I wondered going into the screening what emotions I’d feel coming out. Revulsion? Heartache? Grief?

All of that. But mostly rage, an absolute red-hot anger that there are people in this world capable of such evil and others who would excuse their wickedness.

See the next report.)

Rescued hostage, ‘brainwashed’ by Hamas, thought IDF forces had come to kill him

June 13, 2024 — The Times of Israel reports: “The mother of Andrey Kozlov, one of the four hostages rescued from Gaza by Israeli commandos last weekend, has described some of her son’s harrowing experiences during his eight months of captivity, as well as the surge of emotions that she and her family have experienced since officials rang her to say that he was safe…

Speaking to The New York Times, Evgeniia Kozlova said the captors had told Andrey: ‘Your mom is on vacation in Greece. Your mom doesn’t know about you at all — and doesn’t want to know.’

The terrorists had also persuaded him and the other hostages that their girlfriends were dating other men, Andrey Kozlov’s mother told British outlet The Telegraph.

‘He said he was brainwashed… they told them that nobody wants them, that nobody is fighting for them,’ she said. ‘They said that the Israel Defense Forces wants to kill them and that this will be the solution for the war. So, at the moment when the IDF came, Andrey thought that they came to kill them.’

‘It took him a while to understand that the army came to bring them back to Israel. It was only after a soldier said to them that they love them and they will be fine, that they will be safe. It was only after these words he believed,’ she said, adding that he then viewed the soldiers as ‘superheroes.’…”