The terrified father of the kidnapped Israeli student captured on video being brutally manhandled on a motorbike after attending a party near the Gaza Strip revealed she feared the worst when she received a strange message from her boyfriend, only for her worst nightmare to be confirmed by the harrowing video.
Noa Argamani’s father, Yaakov Argamani, shared through tears that he was praying for the safe return of the 25-year-old after she was kidnapped at a trance music festival near Kibbutz Re’im, where Hamas militants opened fire and fired rockets into the crowd.
“I tried to contact her from the moment we heard the [rocket] sirens,” he told Channel 12, according to The Times of Israel.
According to Argamani, that response seemed strange to him, which led him to head to the hospital to see if he could learn something that way.
“I went to one of the offices and they informed me that she was not injured. While she was on the phone, her roommate contacted us and told us that there was a video of her on a motorcycle and that she had been kidnapped and taken to Gaza,” Argamami said.
“I was hoping I was wrong, that it wasn’t true, and then in the emergency room a guy came up to me and said there was a video if I wanted to see it.”
“I asked to see and then I saw that it was definitely her. She was so scared, so scared. “I always protected her and at this moment I couldn’t,” she cried. “I pray they all come back.”
Distressing images emerged of Argamani screaming for help and shouting “Don’t kill me!” and “No, no, no,” as she is taken away on a Palestinian gunman’s motorcycle while her boyfriend, Avinatan, can be seen being mistreated by terrorists.
Moshe Or reported his brother, Avinatan, missing before he was shown the horrific video of him and Argamani.
“I was worried and tried to call them, but their phone was not available and neither was hers. After a few hours, emergency services contacted us and told us that they had seen a video of my brother and his girlfriend Noa being held hostage towards the Strip,” she said.
Other images appear to show Argamani in Gaza.
The death toll in the surprise attack, which was the worst attack Israel faced in 50 years, rose to at least 600 on Sunday and at least 2,000 were wounded, officials said.
On Sunday, Israel’s security cabinet officially voted to declare war, the first since the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu already referred on Saturday to Israel being “at war,” but the security cabinet’s decision unlocks “significant military activities,” the prime minister’s office said.
Israel’s statement is in accordance with Israel’s Article 40, which allows the government to oversee “significant military actions that may lead, with a level of probability close to certain, to war.”
The declaration also grants additional wartime powers to the prime minister, with the approval of the security cabinet.
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