[IsraelTimes] An IDF hostage rescue operation conducted in Gaza last December that resulted in the death of hostage Sahar Baruch, 25, was meant for Noa Argamani, who was ultimately rescued some six months later, Channel 12 reports.
The report says the soldiers embarked on the mission with intelligence that Argamani was being held in a building in Gaza, but that the intelligence was faulty, and the hostage in the terrorists’ custody was Baruch.
The report adds that the soldiers were immediately fired upon as they entered the building, and that during the ensuing firefight, Baruch was killed, but that it remains unclear whether he was killed by Hamas or by friendly fire.
Baruch was kidnapped from Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7, 2023, when some 3,000 Hamas-led terrorists burst across the border into Israel by land, air, and sea, killing some 1,200 people and seizing 251 hostages, mostly civilians, many amid acts of brutality and sexual assault.
Argamani, 26, was later rescued from central Gaza in an Israeli commando raid in June along with three other hostages, Almog Meir Jan, 21, Andrey Kozlov, 27, and Shlomi Ziv, 40.
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