Hamas forced an Israeli hostage to reveal the deaths of two fellow captives as part of a sickening “guessing game” propaganda video that terrorists provoked over the weekend.
Noa Argamani, 26, who became the face of the hostage crisis when a video showed her being kidnapped at the Nova music festival, appeared in her third Hamas clip on Monday to reveal that Yossi Sharabi and Itai Svirsky They had been killed in captivity.
An apparent zoomed-in version of the video also circulated on social media and included gruesome images believed to be Sharabi and Svirsky’s bloodied corpses stuffed into body bags. Images of the men’s bodies have not been officially verified.
Argamani said in the latest footage that she had been held in a building with her two fellow hostages by the military wing of Hamas when the site was hit by an Israeli airstrike.
“It was bombed by an IDF airstrike, an F16 fighter jet,” Argamni said in the video, which lasts 2 minutes and 33 seconds. “Three rockets were launched. Two of the rockets exploded and the other did not.
“We were in the building with Al Qassam soldiers and three hostages: me, Noa Argamani, Itai Svirsky and Yossef Sharabi,” he added.
Hamas revealed in a video that Israeli hostages Yossi Sharabi and Itai Svirsky have been killed, while Noa Argamani is still alive. Argamani reported the deaths of the two men in the Hamas propaganda video.
“After the building we were in was hit, we were all buried under the rubble. Al Qassam soldiers saved my life and Itai’s. Unfortunately we could not save Yossi,” Argamani said.
“After many days… two nights, Itai and I were transferred to another place. While we were being transported, Itai was hit by an IDF airstrike. He did not survive.”
As in previous propaganda videos showing hostages under duress, Argamani condemned Israel’s bombing of Gaza and placed all the blame on the Israel Defense Forces.
Argamani, Sharabi and Svirsky were seen alive in an undated propaganda video released Sunday.
“They died from our own IDF airstrikes,” he said. “Stop this madness and bring us home to our families. While we are alive, bring us home.”
IDF spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari denied on Monday that an Israeli airstrike had killed the two men and called the propaganda video a “lie” by Hamas, the Times of Israel reported.
“Our forces did not kill Itay. This is a lie from Hamas,” Hagari said. “The building where they were detained was not a target and was not attacked by our forces.”
But Hagari said the IDF carried out an attack near the area where the hostages were being held, acknowledging that it may have put their lives in danger.
“We did not know its exact location in real time. “We do not attack where we know there are hostages,” the military officer said. “In retrospect, we know that we attacked targets close to where they were being held.”
Some of the hostages freed by Hamas in November have accused the IDF of carrying out airstrikes near the places where they were held.
The Israeli Defense Ministry accused Hamas of once again carrying out “psychological abuse” with the publication of the propaganda videos.
Argamani, Sharabi and Svirsky were initially seen alive in an undated video released by Hamas on Sunday; the first time images of them have emerged since they were kidnapped during the Palestinian terrorist group’s brutal attack on Israel on October 7.
The trio was filmed urging Israeli officials to do everything possible to free them, and the 37-second clip warned that the hostages’ fate would be revealed on Monday.
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Hamas’ latest update states that two of the three hostages seen in its video above are dead as a result of the Israeli bombing of Gaza.
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Hamas then sickeningly joked in a follow-up video that the three hostages could be killed, wounded or saved, before releasing footage of Argamani revealing the men’s deaths.
The new propaganda videos emerged just hours after Hamas claimed to have lost contact with “many” of its hostages following Israeli bombings in Gaza, and the terror group suggested they may have been killed.
Argamani can be seen in a now-viral video being kidnapped during the Nova rage in Israel on October 7 shouting, “Don’t kill me!” from the back of a motorcycle.
The sobbing hostage was photographed trying to get closer to her boyfriend, Avinatan Or, who was being mistreated by the terrorists before they also kidnapped him.
Argamani’s case attracted international attention after Netanyahu revealed last month that he asked Beijing for help on behalf of the hostage’s mother, Liora, who is a Chinese citizen.
Liora, a terminal brain cancer patient, has pleaded with Israel and China to help her reunite her family before she dies from her illness.
Argamani was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023.
“I am terminally ill with stage 4 brain cancer,” Liora wrote in a letter sent to President Joe Biden that brought CNN anchor John Oz to tears on air as he read it.
“All that goes through my mind before separating from my family forever is the opportunity to hug my daughter, my only daughter, for the last time,” he added.
Sharabi was kidnapped along with his son Oren, 13, and brother Eli, 51, when their homes in Kibbutz Be’eri were attacked by Hamas during the Sukkot holidays on October 7. Oren was released as a previous hostage-prisoner. exchange, while Eli remains captive.
Eli’s wife and two teenage daughters were confirmed to be among the dead at the kibbutz, along with their dog, after their home was burned down, the Times of Israel reported.
Svirsky from Tel Aviv was also in Be’eri visiting his parents when he was kidnapped by Hamas, and the bodies of his mother and father were found days later.
Svirsky was with his parents, who were divorced but living as neighbors, on vacation when Hamas attacked.
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