Israeli military says 4 captives rescued from Nuseirat
The Israeli military says it rescued four captives this morning during an operation in Nuseirat.
A joint statement on Telegram by the army, police and the securities agency, said that Noa Argamani (25), Almog Meir Jan (21), Andrey Kozlov (27), and Shlomi Ziv (40), were found in “two separate locations in the heart of Nuseirat”.
It added that these four were taken to Gaza during the Nova music festival on October 7. “They are in good medical condition and have been transferred to the ‘Sheba’ Tel-HaShomer Medical Center for further medical examinations,” the army said.
‘Blood everywhere’ at Al-Aqsa Hospital
Dr Tanya Haj-Hassan, a pediatric intensive care doctor with Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, says Al-Aqsa is too small a facility to be acting as Gaza’s main hospital.
“It has completely taken over Gaza’s healthcare system because every other major hospital has been destroyed,” Haj-Hassan told Al Jazeera. The doctor said she has been receiving “frantic messages of pure chaos in the last hour” from colleagues at Al-Asqa describing “horrific” scenes from the hospital.
“I received a message from one of my colleagues in the emergency department saying, Dr Tanya, it’s a full-blown, comprehensive genocide site,” she said. “He kept repeating the word massacre, massacre, massacre over and over again.”
Haj-Hassan said her colleague then sent her video footage from the emergency department of the hospital. “There is blood everywhere. There are many people missing, extremities. It was so horrific.”
An injured child looks on at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, in the aftermath of an Israeli strike, in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, Saturday
Israeli army gives details on captive rescue
Here are some points made by Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari following news of the army rescuing four captives from Gaza:
- Information was gathered for weeks ahead of the operation.
- This was a high-risk mission conducted in daylight deep inside Gaza. A helicopter was part of this operation.
- The four were rescued from two separate buildings.
- 120 captives are still being held in Gaza.
Andrey Kozlov, 27, left, and Almog Meir Jan, 21, two of four hostages who were just rescued, arrive by helicopter to the Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel, Saturday
Fifty-five people killed in Israeli attack
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital spokesperson Khalil al-Degran says 55 people have been killed and “tens of wounded people” have arrived at the hospital following the Israeli attack on Nuseirat.
Palestinians stand by their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip at al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah on Saturday
