HEART-RACING footage shows the moment Israeli forces rescued three hostages trapped in Gaza before battling their Hamas captors.
Israeli troops storming into a living room and into a darkened bedroom where they found three men sheltering together.
The daring mission carried out on Saturday saw Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) rescue Almog Meir Jan, 21, Andrey Kozlov, 27, and Shlomi Ziv, 40.
Noa Argamani, the 26-year-old woman whose story made headlines in October after she was snatched by Hamas, was also saved on Saturday from a nearby site.
A hail of gunfire can be heard in the video as IDF troops smash open the apartment door, along with what appears to be children shouting and screaming in the background.
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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.
Israel conducted the raids in the Nuseirat area of the Gaza Strip on Saturday - a refugee camp in the middle of the war-torn enclave.
Officers from the elite police counter-terrorism unit Yamam along with Shin Bet agents raided two buildings there simultaneously.
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.
The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza claims 274 Palestinians were killed, including children, during the raid.
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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."
The mission, dubbed Operation Seeds of Summer, was green lit last Thursday after weeks of careful planning and intelligence gathering.
Then in broad daylight on Saturday morning, Israeli teams crossed into Gaza at around 10am local time and stormed the apartments.
The IDF has said that the hostages were being held in the homes of Gaza families in two different Hamas-controlled buildings.
Hamas has previously been accused of using civilians as human shields.
Israel estimated that less than 100 people died.
IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari claimed that the IDF came under heavy attack during the mission, sparking heavy gunfire heard in the video.
He said the commandos working to save the hostages responded to attacks from Hamas by firing “from the air and from the street".
Israeli forces also said a special forces commander was killed during the operation.
The hostages were bundled into choppers after the impressive raid and rushed to hospital in Israel to be checked over.
One of Noa's relatives told press the troops had banged on the door of where she was being held in Gaza and yelled that they had come to rescue her.
Asaf Shaibi said: “She told me a little. It was 10am and they banged on the door and shouted ‘It’s the IDF and we’ve come to rescue you'".
The Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 saw around 1,200 people slaughtered, sparking eight months of brutal war in the besieged Strip.
Gunmen took around 250 hostages back to Gaza on October 7, more than 100 of whom were released in exchange for about 240 Palestinians held in Israeli jails during a week-long truce in November.
Efforts to secure another hostage release or ceasefire since then have been unsuccessful as the fighting rages on.
Touching footage from the choppers showed some of the freed hostages looking out at Israel as the jet came in to land.
And heartwarming photographs later showed them reuniting with their loved ones in hospital.
Noa's particular case became one of the most recognisable after the horrors of the October massacre, as footage of her being ripped away from her boyfriend shocked the world.
She was seen being loaded onto a motorbike as she pleaded with Hamas gunmen "don't kill me".
The brave woman was kept in a small child's bedroom for 245 days and did not see sunlight.
