Mother of Israeli hostage Noa Argamani dies weeks after daughter's rescue
The mother of Noa Argamani, the Israeli hostage who became a symbol of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, has died of brain cancer weeks after her daughter was rescued.
The mother of Noa Argamani, the Israeli hostage who became a symbol of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, has died of brain cancer just over three weeks after her daughter was rescued from the Gaza Strip.
The Ichilov Medical Center in Tel Aviv confirmed in a statement Tuesday that Liora Argamani had died “after a long battle with cancer.”
The hospital said she “spent her final days alongside her daughter Noa, who returned from captivity, and her close family.”
“We convey the family’s request to respect their privacy during these difficult times,” the statement said.
Noa Argamani, 26, from Be’er Sheva, was at the Nova music festival in southern Israel when she was seized by Palestinian fighters, who took her away on a motorcycle in an abduction captured on video. On June 8, she was one of four hostages rescued by the Israeli Defense Forces in a daytime raid on two houses in the Nuseirat refugee camp in which scores of Palestinians were killed.
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