Body cam footage of the heroic hostage rescue of Noa Argamani by Israel Police’s Yamam forces, IDF, and ISA pic.twitter.com/XcqNgurhNb
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Dramatic moment elite Israeli forces rescue hostage Noa Argamani from Hamas captivity during Gaza raid
Dramatic bodycam footage captured the moment elite Israeli forces rescued hostage Noa Argamani from eight months of Hamas captivity during a daring and “complex” operation in Gaza.
Argamani, whose abduction by Hamas terrorists from the Supernova music festival on Oct. 7 quickly became the symbol of the terrorist attack on the Jewish state, was saved inside an apartment building in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp on June 8.
“Noa everything is okay, we are taking you home,” an officer tells Argamani in the clip released by the Israel Police on Saturday. “We’re taking you home Noa. You’re safe, we’re taking you to the vehicle.”
Argamani, a 26-year-old China-born Israel citizen, was one of four hostages rescued during the operation.
She was inside one of the two Hamas-occupied three- to four-story buildings housing captives that the IDF targeted.
During the raid, Argamani was rushed out of the building and carried on the back of one of the Israeli commandos.
A loud explosion is heard as the unit appears to wait in a doorway while gunfire is exchanged in the background.
The team then rushed to a vehicle, where they all piled in take off before she was ultimately brought to Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv.
“We’re from the Yaman (Police) and Shabak (ISA),” one person explains to Argamani inside the vehicle. “We are very excited that you’re here and we’re proud of you.”
“I am very excited, just very scared about the journey,” Argamani heartbreakingly tells her rescuers.
She was immediately reassured that “everything is ok, you are with us, it’s all ok.”
Argamani, who survived the terrorist attack at the music festival where 360 people were slaughtered, was abducted and taken to Gaza on the back of a terrorist-driven motorcycle.
She later told family members that she was certain that she would be publicly lynched by the crowd that awaited her, according to Israel’s Channel 13.
While being held captive in the Gaza Strip, Argamani said she was forced to dress as a Palestinian woman on the rare occasions she was brought outside.
She was also moved between several apartments over the eight months she was held captive and said she nearly died four times, including one where she survived an alleged Israeli airstrike.
In January, Argamani was forced to announce that fellow hostages, Yossi Sharabi and Itai Svirsky, were killed in the attack in a cruel propaganda video released by the terror group in January that displayed the corpses of fellow hostages, Yossi Sharabi and Itai Svirsky, who were reportedly killed in the strike.
Argamani was rescued from the home of a well-off Gaza family, whom she had to convince to let her bathe.
Heartening photos showed a free Argamani embracing her father, Yakov, after the pair were finally reunited.
Video of her rescue comes five days after a similar video was released that showed Israeli forces rescuing three other hostages during the same raid at another location nearby.
Almog Meir Jan, 21; Andrey Kozlov, 27; and Shlomi Ziv, 41; had been rescued by the forces who simultaneously raided two multi-story buildings during “Operation Arnon.”
During the operation, Arnon Zamora, a commander with the Yamam Counter Terrorism Unit was killed.
Zamora’s unit had played a pivotal role in the successful return of hostages.
