Hamas said on Monday that Israeli hostages Yossi Shalabi and Itai Svirski were killed in captivity, but Noa al-Ghamani is still alive.
This grim update was revealed in the terrorist organization's latest propaganda video featuring 26-year-old Al-Ghamani, which reported the deaths of two men.
Al-Ghamani was previously captured on video shouting “Don't kill me!” at the Nova Music Festival on October 7. From the back of a motorcycle — in new footage, she said she was being held in a building by Hamas' military wing with two of her fellow hostages when the scene was attacked by Israeli airstrikes.
“It was bombed by Israeli Defense Force airstrikes, F16 fighter jets,” Al-Ghamni said in the 2-minute, 33-second video. “Three rockets were fired. Two of the rockets exploded, but the other did not.
“We were in the building with al-Qassam soldiers and three hostages, myself, Noa al-Ghamani, Itai Subirski and Yosef Shalabi,” she added.
“The building we were living in was hit and we were all trapped under the rubble. Al-Qassam soldiers saved my life and Itai's life. Unfortunately, we We couldn't save anything,” Al-Ghamani said.
“After many days…and two nights, Itai and I were transferred to another location. While we were being transferred, Itai came under an Israeli Defense Forces airstrike. He did not survive. .”
Similar to previous propaganda videos featuring threatened hostages, al-Ghamani condemned Israeli shelling in Gaza and placed all responsibility on the Israel Defense Forces.
“They died because of our own Israel Defense Forces airstrikes,” she said. “Please stop this madness and bring us home to our families. Please take us home while we are still alive.”
An undated video released by Hamas on Sunday shows al-Ghamani, Shalabi and Subirski alive, who were abducted during the Palestinian terrorist group's brutal attack on Israel on October 7. This is the first time their footage has been released since.
The three were filmed urging Israeli authorities to do everything possible to free them, warning in a 37-second video that the fate of the hostages would be revealed on Monday.
Hamas later teased ad nauseam in a follow-up video that the three hostages could be killed, injured or saved.
A new propaganda video claims Hamas has lost contact with “many” of its hostages after Israeli bombing in the Gaza Strip, and the terrorist organization suggests the hostages may have been killed. It was released just a few hours after.
Al-Ghamani became the face of the hostage crisis as he was carried away during the massacre.
The hostage was photographed sobbing and trying to reach her boyfriend, Abinatan Orr, who was also manhandled by the terrorists before she was kidnapped.
Al-Ghamani's case attracted international attention last month after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed that he had asked the Chinese government for assistance on behalf of the hostage's mother, Liora, a Chinese national.
Liora, a terminally ill brain tumor patient, begged Israel and China to help reunite her family before she succumbed to her illness.
“I have a terminal stage 4 brain tumor,” Liola wrote in a letter to President Joe Biden, which caused CNN anchor John Oz to cry on air.
“Before I leave my family forever, the only thing running through my mind is the chance to hug my only child, my daughter, one last time,” she added.
Shalabi was abducted along with her 13-year-old son Oren and brother Eli, 51, when Hamas attacked their home in Kibbutz Beli during Sukkot on October 7. Oren was released as a former hostage. Eli remains captured.
The kibbutz house was set on fire, and Eli's wife and two teenage daughters were confirmed dead along with their dog. The Times of Israel reported.
Svirski, from Tel Aviv, was also in Beiri visiting his parents when he was kidnapped by Hamas, but the bodies of his mother and father were discovered days later.
Svirski was on vacation with his divorced parents, who lived as neighbors, when Hamas attacked.
