The attack, the rescue and the announcement: "The diamonds are in our hands"
The movement secretly and in daylight to the buildings where the four abductees were kept. The fall of the IDF soldier Arnon Zamora in fighting to rescue three of them. The influx of hundreds of armed terrorists to the area. And the unusual permission given to the assault helicopters to land deep in the Gaza Strip. This is how the operation was conducted in which Noa Argamani, Almog Meir Jan, Shlomi Ziv and Andrey Kozlov were rescued
Thursday, 18:30: After careful planning, exercises and models, and advanced intelligence surveillance that lasted for many weeks, the political echelon approves the operation initially called "Summer Seeds". The approval was done in a classified discussion, under heavy compartmentalization and waiting for the right moment.
Saturday, 10:00: Two central commando teams leap from several directions, when they are upset, towards the Nusirat refugee camp near the coast. The forces move in broad daylight secretly to the two buildings where the abductees were held, with thousands of Palestinians and hundreds of terrorists from the local Hamas battalion among them - who are not noticed. According to the Palestinians, the forces entered using a humanitarian aid truck - and Al Jazeera even published documentation of it with IDF vehicles, apparently from the moments after the operation. The IDF denied this, and also denied that they later used the American pier.