Hamas forced a female Israeli hostage to reveal the deaths of two fellow captives as part of a sick propaganda video “guessing game” that the terrorists teased over the weekend.
Noa Argamani, 26 — who became the face of the hostage crisis when video showed her being kidnapped from the Nova music fest — appeared Monday in her third Hamas clip to reveal that Yossi Sharabi and Itai Svirsky had been killed in captivity.
An apparent extended version of the video also circulated on social media and included horrifying images believed to be Sharabi and Svirsky’s bloodied corpses being put into body bags. The images of the men’s corpses have not been officially verified.
Argamani said in the latest footage that she had been held in a building with her fellow two hostages by Hamas’ military wing 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 fired. Two of the rockets exploded, and the other didn’t.
“We were in the building with Al Qassam soldiers and three hostages: Myself, Noa Argamani, Itai Svirsky, and Yossef Sharabi,” she 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 on the two men’s deaths in the propaganda video from Hamas.
“After the building we were in was hit, we were all buried under rubble. Al Qassam soldiers saved my life, and Itai’s. Unfortunately, we were not able to save Yossi’s,” Argamani said.
“After many days … two nights, Itai and I were relocated to another place. While we were being transported, Itai was hit by an IDF airstrike. He did not survive.”
As in previous propaganda videos featuring hostages under duress, Argamani condemned Israel’s bombardments in Gaza and levied all the blame against the Israel Defense Forces.
Argamani, Sharabi and Svirsky were seen alive in an undated propaganda video released on Sunday.
“They died because of our own IDF airstrikes,” she said. “Stop this madness and bring us home to our families. While we are still alive, bring us home.”
IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari on Monday denied that an Israeli airstrike killed the two men, characterizing the propaganda video as a “lie” by Hamas, the Times of Israel reported.
“Itay was not killed by our forces. This is a Hamas lie,” Hagari said. “The building where they were held was not a target and was not attacked by our forces.”
But Hagari did say the IDF carried out a strike near the area where the hostages were being held, acknowledging that it may have put their lives in danger.
“We did not know their exact location in real-time. We do not strike where we know there are hostages,” the military official said. “In retrospect, we know that we attacked targets close to the location where they were held.”
Some of the hostages released by Hamas in November have accused the IDF of conducting airstrikes near the locations they were being held.
The Israeli Ministry of Defense accused Hamas of once again carrying out “psychological abuse” with the release of the propaganda videos.
Argamani, Sharabi and Svirsky were initially seen alive in undated video released by Hamas on Sunday — the first time footage of them surfaced since they were kidnapped during the Palestinian terror group’s brutal Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
The trio was filmed urging Israeli officials to do whatever they could to free them, with the 37-second clip warning that the hostages’ fate would be revealed Monday.
Hamas then sickeningly teased in a follow-up video that the three hostages could be either killed, injured or spared — before releasing footage of Argamani revealing the men’s deaths.
The new propaganda videos came just hours after Hamas claimed to have lost contact with “many” of its hostages following Israeli bombardments in Gaza, with the terror group suggesting that they might have been killed.
Argamani can be seen on now-viral video being abducted from the Nova rage in Israel on Oct. 7 screaming, “Don’t kill me!” from the back of a motorcycle.
The sobbing hostage was pictured trying to reach out to her boyfriend, Avinatan Or, who was being manhandled by the terrorists before they kidnapped him as well.
Argamani’s case drew international attention after Netanyahu revealed last month that he reached out to Beijing for assistance on behalf of the hostage’s mother, Liora, who is a Chinese citizen.
Liora, a patient with terminal brain cancer, has pleaded with Israel and China to help reunite her family before she dies from her disease.
Argamani getting kidnapped by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7, 2023.
“I am terminally ill with stage 4 brain cancer,” Liora wrote in a letter sent to President Joe Biden that caused CNN anchor John Oz to cry on air as he read it.
“All that’s running through my mind before I part ways with my family forever is the chance to hug my daughter, my only child, one last time,” she added.
Sharabi was kidnapped alongside his 13-year-old son Oren and brother Eli, 51, when their homes in Kibbutz Be’eri were attacked by Hamas during the Sukkot holiday Oct. 7. Oren was released in a previous hostage-prisoner exchange, while Eli remains captive.
Eli’s wife and two teenage daughters were confirmed to be among the dead in the kibbutz, along with their dog, after their house was set on fire, the Times of Israel reported.
Svirsky of Tel Aviv was also in Be’eri visiting his parents when he was kidnapped by Hamas, with his mother’s and father’s corpses found days later.
Svirsky was with his parents, who were divorced but living as neighbors, during the holiday when Hamas attacked.
