Noa Argamani was released today. The girl, 25 years old, she had been kidnapped by Hamas militiamen at the Supernova rave festival in the Negev desert and had become one of the symbols of the October 7 attack. The video of the kidnapping of the Israeli student, while she was separated from her boyfriend in tears and crying for help, was circulated in the first hours of the massacre. A ten-second clip, which went around the world, where the girl is seen being put on the back of a motorbike, shouting “don’t kill me” and being taken to the Gaza Strip. The young girl studied at Ben Gurion University in Israel. A girl like many others who, passionate about music, who had gone dancing with her Avinatan, was also kidnapped.
Noa’s mother is battling brain cancer and has done everything she can to see her daughter free again. Today the images of Noa’s embrace with her father Yaakov were released.
That first hug! Rescued Israeli hostage Noa Argamani being hugged by her father.
Meantime, Noa’s mother has stage 4 terminal cancer. Her dying wish di lei has just been to see her daughter di lei one more time. Now, her dream of her too will come true! pic.twitter.com/xrpPxZkJub
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The meeting with Netanyahu
“We didn’t give you up for lost even for a moment. I don’t know if you believed it, but we believed it and I’m happy that it happened,” Benjamin Netanyahu said in the phone call with Noa Argamani. “Reconnect with your family, and hug your mother too,” added the Israeli prime minister, speaking to the girl who said she was “very excited” to speak Hebrew again. βIn Hebrew and at home this is important,β Netanyahu added. President Isasc Herzog also spoke to Noa, telling her that she “embraces her on behalf of the entire nation of Israel.”
The last video was a month ago
“The time available is running out, people must decide, we don’t want to die here” is heard in the audio, attributed to Noa Argamani, of a video, published last May 31 by Hamas, in which the girl asked the Israelis to mobilize to push the government to take action to free the hostages. “Will you leave us here to put an end to the fate of me and my fellow hostages like Ron Arad?”, said the young woman in the video, defined as Hamas propaganda by the Israeli government. “I address the people of Israel: have you become government allies of Netanyahu, Gallant and Gantz? – he continued – Bring out thousands of women and men to the streets, block the streets of Tel Aviv and do not return home until we return home. Don’t put our fate in the hands of Netanyahu and the war cabinet.”
The Forum of the families of the hostages and the disappeared had made it known that the Argamani family had authorized the diffusion of the video: “After evaluating the situation and receiving other information, the Argamani family approved the use of the video in which Noa is heard, while being held hostage by Hamas. In addition to Noa’s voice, the video shows drawings that the family believes were made by Noa.”
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