Rescued hostage Noa Argamani, who was abducted with hundreds of others from the Supernova music festival during Hamas's October 7 terror onslaught, speaks during a meeting with G7 embassy representatives during a visit to Tokyo, Japan on August 21, 2024. (Photo by Richard A. Brooks / AFP)
A young Israeli woman who became emblematic of the 251 hostages kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 says she had thought every night in captivity would be her last.
“Every night I was falling asleep and thinking, this may be the last night of my life,” Noa Argamani says in Japan on a visit with her father.
“And until the moment I was [rescued by the IDF]… I just did not believe that I was still surviving,” the 26-year-old says as she meets with senior diplomats from G7 countries in Tokyo. “And in this moment that I’m still sitting with you, it’s a miracle that I’m here.”
Argamani was among those kidnapped by the Palestinian terror group from the Supernova music festival during the brutal October 7 onslaught that sparked the ongoing war. A video that went viral showed her on the back of a motorbike screaming: “Don’t kill me!”
The video showed her boyfriend, Avinatan Or, an engineer, being led away separately.
Israeli special forces freed Argamani in a raid on Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp on June 8 along with three others — Almog Meir Jan, 22, Andrey Kozlov, 27, and Shlomi Ziv, 41.
“Avinatan, my boyfriend, is still there, and we need to bring them back before it’s going to be too late. We don’t want to lose more people than we already lost,” says Argamani.
Rescued hostage Noa Argamani, center, who was abducted with hundreds of others from the Supernova music festival during Hamas’s October 7 terror onslaught, attends a meeting with G7 embassy representatives during a visit to Tokyo, Japan on August 21, 2024. (Photo by Richard A. Brooks / AFP)
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