An Al Jazeera contributor and his physician father held Israeli hostage Noa Argamani in their home, according to Palestinian reports.
Argamani was released on Saturday in a high-stakes IDF operation in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza along with three other captives.
According to Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor Chairman Rami Abdu, "In an initial testimony documenting the killings committed by the Israeli army in the Nuseirat camp today, the EuroMedHR reported that the Israeli army used a ladder to enter the home of Dr. Ahmed Al Jamal. The army immediately executed 36-year-old Fatima Al Jamal upon encountering her on the staircase. The forces then stormed the house and executed her husband, journalist Abdullah Al-Jamal, 36, and his father, Dr. Ahmed, 74, in front of his grandchildren. The army also shot their daughter, Zainab, 27, who sustained serious injuries."
Aljamal contributed to Al Jazeera and published almost daily in English in the Palestine Chronicle since the beginning of the war. Days before the operation in Nuseirat, he wrote about the killing of the mayor of Nuseirat which he referred to as "the best mayor" despite being a member of Hamas and taking part in terrorist activities.
Al Jazeera denied any affiliation with the reporter. “This man is not from Al-Jazeera, and he did not work for Al Jazeera at all, and he is not listed as working for Al Jazeera neither now nor in the past,” Al Jazeera Jerusalem bureau chief Omar al-Walid said on Sunday. “We do not know him, and all the rumors that have been spread are empty of content and not true at all.”
The day before, he brought testimonies from what he called "the massacre at the Nuseirat school," where, according to the IDF, at least 17 terrorists hiding in the UNRWA school were killed.
The "massacre of the people" and the "courageous" action on October 7
In another article, a week and a half ago, he wrote about the people's hardships after enduring a massacre while another article said that resistance is their only option. The article included baseless claims such as capturing soldiers in Jabaliya, which the IDF categorically denied. In the first article he published after October 7, he referred to the October 7 massacre as a "courageous operation" by Hamas.
The IDF operation was initially called Seeds of Summer and later renamed Operation Arnon after Yamam commando Chief Inspector Arnon Zamora who was killed in the raid. In addition to Argamani, Almog Meir Jan, Shlomi Ziv and Andrey Kozlov were also rescued from Nuseirat after 246 days in Hamas captivity.
Noa Argamani rescued from Gaza
(Video: IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
The forces stormed both locations, with Noa being held in one building on the ground floor - and Andrey, Shlomi, and Almog on the third floor of another building. The two buildings were located a few hundred meters apart, and the captives were held with Gazan families, who had been paid by Hamas.
The operation's planners considered separately rescuing Noa Argamani, but decided against it, fearing Noa's rescue would lead to the terrorists harming the other hostages. Therefore, it was decided to storm both buildings simultaneously. Upon returning to Israel, Noa met with her father and later with her mother Liora, who is terminally ill with cancer, and had one wish: "to meet Noa before her last days." Noa's partner, Avinatan Or, remains in captivity.