Dramatic helmet cam footage shows step-by-step Israel’s Operation ‘Arnon’ to rescue four Hamas hostages

NEWLY released footage of the daring Israeli operation to rescue four hostages last week lifts a lid on the dangerous mission.

Helmet cam video shows the troops pouring from a chopper and sweeping into Gaza to free the kidnapped Israelis – including Noa Argamani.

IDF troops make their way through central Gaza alongside armoured tanks

They break into a house with a red door – swooping upstairs to track down the hostages

At least half a dozen snipers storm the house

After rescuing the four hostages they make their way back to the choppers

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The four rescued hostages included Noa Argamani, 26, pictured here reuniting with her dad[/caption]

Operation “Arnon”, carried out by special forces, troops and paratroopers within the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), was in the works for weeks.

Carried out in broad daylight, it involved storming two separate buildings where the four hostages were being kept separately.

Officers from the elite police counter-terrorism unit Yamam along with Shin Bet agents raided the Nuseirat refugee camp in the centre of the Strip.

They rescued Almog Meir Jan, 21, Andrey Kozlov, 27, Shlomi Ziv, 40 and Noa Argamani, the 26-year-old whose story made headlines when she was snatched from the Nova music festival on October 7.

The helmet cam footage begins with a line of troops, kitted out in full gear with rifles poised in front, storming down a Gaza road.

Under the command of IDF paratroopers they rapidly work their way through the war-torn enclave alongside a line or armoured tanks.

As a group of them make their way through rubble and destroyed streets, they arrive at a red door.

More than half a dozen soldiers burst inside and make their way up a darkened staircase.

Although the hostages are not seen in the footage, the caption reads “the Hostages and Special Forces Boarded the Vehicles”.

More heart-racing footage released last week showed the moment the three men – who were kept in Gaza for 245 days – were rescued.

Shlomi, lying on a bed, holds his hands above his head in the footage as troops storm into the dark bedroom.

Andrey and Almog are huddled together on a chair nearby as they too cover their heads.

As the sounds of fighting rage on outside, the hostages huddle together to shield themselves.

Almog quickly jumps to the bed where Shlomi is sitting barefoot and they grip onto each other.

The footage then pans to the troops filing outside, as more gunfire is exchanged – presumably as the Israeli troops fight off Hamas operatives nearby.

The freed hostages can be seen running barefoot as they’re led away from captivity.

They were bundled into choppers after the impressive raid and rushed to hospital in Israel to be checked over.

Israel said a major gunfire exchange erupted at the home where the three men were being held – whereas Argamani’s rescue was smoother.

The mission was renamed Operation Arnon because an Israeli officer, Arnon Zmora, died from his wounds after being shot by Hamas fire.

The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza claimed 274 Palestinians were killed, including children, during the operation.

Local Abdel Salam Darwish told the BBC he was in a market buying vegetables when he heard gunfire and fighter jets.

He said: “Afterwards, people’s bodies were in pieces, scattered in the streets, and blood stained the walls.”

All four of the hostages were taken by Hamas on October 7 last year, when the terror group launched a brutal attack on the Nova music festival in Israel.

Hamas terrorists killed 1,200 Israelis that day.

Since the war erupted in Gaza soon after, the UN estimates that over 35,000 Palestinians have died.

IDF troops completed the daring op in broad daylight

Noa Argamani, 26, was one of those rescued during the IDF mission

Noa Argamani is taken onboard a chopper to be flown home to Israel

Two of the terrified hostages cowered in fear at first before realising they were being rescued