On May 18, Gantz announced that he would resign from the government on June 8 if the cabinet did not produce an action plan to secure goals including the return of hostages in Gaza and the defeat of Hamas, Xinhua news agency reported. .

The rescue operation was carried out by Israeli forces in cooperation with the police's elite National Counter Terror Unit and the Israel Security Agency, while at least 94 Palestinians were killed in air strikes in the same area.

The hostages, 25-year-old Noah Argamani, 40-year-old Shlomi Ziv, 21-year-old Almog Meir Jan and 27-year-old Andrey Kozlov, were abducted while attending the Nova festival, an outdoor concert in a rural area near the Gaza-Israel fence . ,

Israel Defense Forces spokesman Daniel Hagari said the four were located in fair medical condition in two buildings in the center of Gaza's Nuseirat refugee camp.