{"id":68654,"date":"2024-06-08T14:50:03","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T14:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/08\/who-are-the-four-hostages-rescued-in-gaza\/"},"modified":"2024-06-08T14:50:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T14:50:03","slug":"who-are-the-four-hostages-rescued-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/08\/who-are-the-four-hostages-rescued-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Are the Four Hostages Rescued in Gaza?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"549\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/06\/08\/multimedia\/08live-hostage-argamani-jpzq\/08live-hostage-argamani-jpzq-facebookJumbo.jpg?fit=1050,549&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Who Are the Four Hostages Rescued in Gaza?\" title=\"Who Are the Four Hostages Rescued in Gaza?\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Four hostages abducted from the Nova music festival and held by militants in Gaza for the last eight months were rescued by Israeli forces on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Since the Hamas-led terrorist attack on Oct. 7, Israel has only freed a small number of hostages through military force. Saturday\u2019s rescues occurred in Nuseirat in central Gaza, where health officials reported that dozens of Palestinians had been killed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Here is what we know about the four hostages who were brought back to Israel.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-15h6bi9 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-46146a94\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Noa Argamani<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Noa Argamani, 26, was taken hostage in the Oct. 7 attack alongside her boyfriend, Avinatan Or. Viral footage showed Ms. Argamani being taken into Gaza on the back of a motorcycle as she cried out in desperation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Argamani and her boyfriend were abducted from the Nova music festival in southern Israel, where militants carried out brutal atrocities against partygoers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The plight of Ms. Argamani received outsized attention, in part because her mother, Liora, is suffering from brain cancer and her condition has deteriorated significantly in recent months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI don\u2019t know how much time I have left,\u201d the mother said last year. \u201cI wish to see my Noa at home.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-15h6bi9 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-2702f72d\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Andrey Kozlov<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Andrey Kozlov, 27, was working as a security guard at the music festival when he was taken. He recently immigrated to Israel from Russia and was a resident of Rishon Lezion, a city in central Israel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In January, Mikhail Bogdanov, the Russian deputy foreign minister, told Hamas officials that the release of civilians captured in the Oct. 7 attack, including Mr. Kozlov and two other Russian citizens, should be sped up, according to a statement from the Russian foreign ministry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In footage shared on social media on Saturday, Mr. Kozlov could be seen smiling as he was escorted by troops from a military helicopter.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-15h6bi9 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-2163847d\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Almog Meir Jan<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Almog Meir Jan, 22, was kidnapped a day before he was supposed to start a new job at a technology company, according to the Hostage Families Forum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In December, Sky News aired an interview with his mother, Orit, who said that her son had called her on Oct. 7 at 7:45 a.m. and described the chaotic scenes unfolding at the festival site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cMom, they closed the festival,\u201d she recalled him saying. \u201cThere are rockets and shooting everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Saturday, footage of Mr. Meir Jan\u2019s family celebrating the news of his freedom was shared on social media. \u201cI\u2019m so excited,\u201d his mother said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-15h6bi9 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-4836bb00\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Shlomi Ziv<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Shlomi Ziv, 41, was working as a security guard at the festival. He is a resident of Elkosh, a community in northern Israel, where he lived with his wife, Miran, according to the Hostage Families Forum.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/08\/world\/middleeast\/who-are-the-four-hostages-rescued-in-gaza.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four hostages abducted from the Nova music festival and held by militants in Gaza for the last eight months were rescued by Israeli forces on Saturday. Since the Hamas-led terrorist attack on Oct. 7, Israel has only freed a small number of hostages through military force. Saturday\u2019s rescues occurred in Nuseirat in central Gaza, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/06\/08\/multimedia\/08live-hostage-argamani-jpzq\/08live-hostage-argamani-jpzq-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43,193,408],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68656,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68654\/revisions\/68656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}