Newly released body worn camera footage shows the moment 26-year-old Noa Argamani was rescued operation conducted by the IDF to save 4 hostages held in the Nuseirat refugee camp. Argamani was being held captive for 8-months in the home of Abdallah Aljamal, a cameraman, editor, and reporter for al-Jazeera's Qatari channel.

Further information regarding the raid I stole directly from Ronnie's Twitter/X account:

As I research the stream for tonight, I find myself knee deep in a very detailed and harrowing account of the Israeli Hostage Rescue operation in Nuseirat. I'll summarize it, but also link to it in the first comment:

Some notes:
- Noa's rescue went quite smoothly
- The three… pic.twitter.com/MiDL8YmJ9r

— Ronnie Adkins (Funker530) (@RonnieAdkins_) June 14, 2024

- Noa's rescue went quite smoothly

- The three others, 800m away (home of Al-Jamal), much less-so (focusing here)

Israel got the intel on the location back on 12 May. They sent in a low-vis team almost a month ahead of the operation, all fluent in Arabic with Gazan accents. The team purchased an apartment, disguised as Gazans, and interacted with the local populace to confirm the intel. A plan was put together, briefed, and approved. They had an understanding of each of the two locations and would execute the operations simultaneously.

On 8 June at 11am, two teams executed the operation to rescue all four. Noa was in/out with a few Hamas killed during. She flew out near the US pier. The team that rescued the other three men entered in two ways:

- Team via stairs (there's video of this on the site)

- Team via ladders direct to the location they were held on the 3rd floor (there's imagery of this attached)

Once they arrived, the intel gathered by the low-vis team was already out of date. More Hamas was there than was expected. Somewhere near 30, with more that flowed in over time (per source below). The video shows what appears to be somewhat of an in/out, but there's a large firefight that occurs on the interior of the building for an undisclosed time. That firefight forces the three hostages and a few Israeli's guarding them to take cover in a bathroom while the rest work. One Israeli is hit during this firefight, with two medics and a doctor they brought working on him. He would eventually die and is one of the team leaders (if not the overall team leader).

Eventually the Israeli's attrit the Qassam dudes both inside and outside the building enough to move to their vehicle, but they can't take it because it's been hit by two RPG's. It's at this moment (or series of them) that things switched into a higher gear and the bombs started falling.

Israel activated a contingency or a 'Plan B' that brought in support from other infantry (Givati/Golani) and tanks sweeping through Nuiserat on foot. It brought in airstrikes and other CAS, as well as some form of non-descript naval support.

The team couldn't get out and the IDF went weapons free in Nuseirat across just about every asset and capability they had to get them out.

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Will Killmore is a US Army combat infantry veteran and Purple Heart recipient. He has deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan with the 172nd Stryker Brigade and 173rd Airborne Brigade. Following his time in service, he successfully pursued a certificate of journalism and has been a blogger for Funker530 since 2014. Follow Will’s bad takes on Twitter