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\"\"<\/a>\u2018At the level of Entebbe\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

YAAKOV LAPPIN<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The military\u2019s growing control of Gaza created conditions for the daring daylight hostage rescue in Nuseirat \u2022 Terrorists fired waves of RPGs at the extraction force from civilian areas.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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\nIsraeli special forces who took part in the Nuseirat hostage rescue, at the Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, June 8, 2024. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s hostage rescue operation in central Gaza could not have gone ahead without the Israel Defense Force\u2019s ongoing wider ground maneuver in the Strip, which is improving Israeli intelligence and operational control of the area.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As IDF Spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said on Saturday, \u201cif we didn\u2019t operate in Gaza we could have not conducted this sort of operation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The operation was green-lit by Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, with the approval and oversight of IDF Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, the head of the IDF\u2019s Intelligence Directorate Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva and Maj. Gen. (Res.) Nitsan Alon, who heads the special headquarters tasked with gathering intelligence on kidnapped Israelis and MIAs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The commanders gathered in the Israel Security Agency\u2019s joint operations headquarters, receiving real-time intelligence on multiple screens to help coordinate the operation, which had to be as precise and well-timed as brain surgery.<\/span><\/p>\n

The mission, conducted in the heart of the Nuseirat neighborhood, involved units from the Israel Defense Forces, with hundreds of troops providing the outer ring of security, the ISA and the Israel Police\u2019s elite National Counter-Terrorism Unit (Yamam).<\/span><\/p>\n

The operation\u2019s sole Israeli casualty was Chief Inspector Arnon Zamora, 36, a Yamam squad commander. He is survived by his wife and two children.<\/span><\/p>\n

Noa Argamani (26) was held in one apartment, locked in a room, while Almog Meir Jan (21), Andrey Kozlov (27) and Shlomi Ziv (40) were held in second apartment, in a building 200 meters away, according to Hagari. All four had been kidnapped from the Nova music festival near Kibbutz Re\u2019im on Oct. 7, and were constantly watched by armed Hamas guards.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFamilies with guards who had weapons inside the buildings, inside the flats, together, holding the hostages,\u201d said Hagari.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Hamas periodically moved the hostages from one location to another, some of which were above ground and some of which were below. The fact that four hostages were being held above ground relatively close together created a unique opportunity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At 11:00 a.m., the special forces assault teams got the \u201cgo\u201d from Halevi and set out, approaching the two buildings in Nuseirat\u2014a heavily populated civilian area.<\/span><\/p>\n

At 11:25 a.m., the forces entered both buildings at the same time, engaged the terrorists, and extracted the hostages, with air support.<\/span><\/p>\n

Had the operation targeted only one of the buildings, the IDF assessed that the Hamas guards in the second building would have killed their hostages, believing a raid was imminent, Hagari explained. \u201cThat is the reason why we made this decision,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The operation had been canceled three times before finally being given the green light, said Hagari.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe gather the intelligence in multiple ways in order to make sure that we are ready for [an] operation,\u201d he added. As information comes in, commanders need to decide whether or not to wait for more, he explained.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a lot of details, like in a puzzle,\u201d he said. \u201cWe may never have all of the links, but we have to make sure that we have enough links to ensure there is leverage.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The IDF built models of the apartments for special forces to rehearse the rescue, according to Hagari. \u201cThe scale of the rehearsals was as large as the [1976] Entebbe operation\u2014[in terms of] the models we used, as well as the way in which we trained, and we had to make sure that everything was done simultaneously,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Extensive preparations notwithstanding, tensions in the ISA command room were extremely high as the operation got underway, Hagari recalled.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn Noa Argamani\u2019s building our forces surprised them completely; it was still hard. In the other building, we had crossfires with the guards during which the commander of the squad from the [Yamam] Unit was injured,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Zamora was evacuated to hospital in critical condition, where he later died of his wounds.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA very brave warrior,\u201d said Hagari.<\/span><\/p>\n

At this point in the operation, the word was out and terrorists armed with RPGs were \u201crunning in the streets\u201d of the heavily populated residential neighborhood, converging on the rescue force, he continued.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe cynical way in which Hamas is using [the] civilian population [of Gaza] in order to fire at our forces, embedding themselves within civilians, is tragic,\u201d he stated.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere was so much fire drawn to our forces, which meant we needed to fire from the air as well as the streets,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was done very very professionally and precisely,\u201d he emphasized, adding that the IDF had a pre-planned target bank of terrorist forces in the area.<\/span><\/p>\n

The successful rescue highlights the high-level integration of Israel\u2019s various security and military organizations, with the IDF, ISA, Yamam and IAF demonstrating their combined capabilities in intelligence gathering, operational planning and execution.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hagari noted that 120 hostages are still held by Hamas in Gaza, and reaffirmed Israel\u2019s commitment to securing their release.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe will do everything possible to return all the hostages home. This morning\u2019s operation was not only a success but also an opportunity to fulfill the goals of this war,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Yaakov Lappin<\/strong> is an Israel-based military affairs correspondent and analyst. He is the in-house analyst at the Miryam Institute; a research associate at the Alma Research and Education Center; and a research associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University. He is a frequent guest commentator on international television news networks, including Sky News and i24 News. Lappin is the author of Virtual Caliphate: Exposing the Islamist State on the Internet. Follow him at: www.patreon.com\/yaakovlappin.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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