Hamas released a video on Sunday showing three Israeli captives in its possession, including Noa Argamani, a young attendee at the Nova music festival, which was attacked on October 7.
«Tomorrow we will inform you of your destination. “His government is lying,” the Palestinian movement wrote in the publication. This is the first time that Argamani, 26, and the other two hostages, Yossi Sharabi, 53, and Itai Svirsky, 38, have been seen since their kidnapping.
As in other similar recordings released by Hamas, the trio is seen pleading with the Israeli government to do everything possible to ensure their safe return, reports The Times of Israel.
Kidnapping of Argamani
The face of Argamani, a second-year university student, is one of the most recognizable in the conflict. The video of her kidnapping at the Nova music festival was one of the first to be posted on October 7 and went viral. In the images, the young woman is seen on the back of a motorcycle driven by her captor, shouting “Don’t kill me!” her while she tries to reach her boyfriend, Avinatan Or, who was also kidnapped.
Last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that he had asked Beijing to collaborate in securing the freedom of Argamani, whose mother, Liora, is Chinese. Liora Argamani, terminally ill, asked the authorities for help to free her daughter before her death occurred.
Hamas loses contact with several hostages
The new 37-second Hamas recording came to light after the Palestinian group announced on Sunday that it had lost contact with several hostages amid operations by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, noting that They could have died in the attacks in the Hebrew country.
“The fate of many of the enemy’s hostages and detainees has become unknown in recent weeks,” Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida said in a televised statement. “Most likely, many of them have been killed recently, the rest are in great danger every hour and the enemy’s leaders and army bear full responsibility,” he added. Furthermore, he asserted that “any conversation before the cessation of Israeli aggression is worthless.”
Of the 240 people taken hostage by Hamas on October 7, about half were freed in the week-long truce agreed to in November. However, Israel claims that more than one hundred captives remain held in the Palestinian enclave.
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