The four captives rescued by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip had been abducted from a desert rave near the border during Hamas' wide-ranging assault into Israel on Oct. 7.
In video released by the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 25-year-old Noa Argamani is seen reuniting with her father after being rescued.in the Gaza Strip on Saturday had been abducted from a desert rave near the border during Hamas' wide-ranging assault into Israel on Oct. 7. One had emerged as an icon of the agonizing hostage crisis that is still far from over.
In another video released by Hamas in mid-January, she appeared gaunt and spoke - almost certainly under duress - of other hostages being killed in airstrikes months into Israel's massive offensive. On Saturday, after eight months of captivity, Israeli forces rescued Argamani and three men who had all been kidnapped from the Tribe of Nova music festival, where Hamas and other militants killed over 350 people in the worst massacre in Israel's history.
Shlomi Ziv, 40, from a farming community in northern Israel, was working as an usher and had gone to the party with two friends who were both killed, the Times of Israel reported. The Israel Hayom newspaper said he and his wife of 17 years had been trying to have children.
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