Who is Noa Argamani, the Israeli girl symbol of October 7th and the other freed hostages

“I am very excited, I haven’t spoken Hebrew in a long time» said the young woman Noa Argamanithe 25 year old Israeli girl who became the symbol of October 7th, to the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after its liberation from Gaza. Noa Argamani, who almost eight months ago appeared in a video released by Hamas screaming on board a motorbike that was taking her to Gaza from the Supernova festival in which she was taking part, she is one of the four hostages freed Today, June 8, happy and grateful not only for having tasted freedom again but also for having hugged her father again and for having spoken on the phone first with the prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then with the Israeli president Issac Herzog. The girl, as well as the other three hostages, is in good health and is hospitalized at Tel HaShomer hospital. «Not for a minute did we stop thinking about you and we didn’t give up. I don’t know if you believed us but we didn’t give up”, Netanyahu told her, well aware of how much the images of Noa Argamani’s screams on 7 October have remained imprinted in the collective memory.

The kidnapping of the young second year student of the Ben Gurion University, immortalized in a video that went viral, it moved the world also because of the mobilization of his parents, who never gave up asking for their daughter’s release. Liora, her mother, terminally ill with cancer, did everything to be able to hug Noa Argamani again in time, even addressing US President Joe Biden on CNN to ask, last December, to be able to see her daughter again before she died. Together with the girl, three other boys who saw the light again were, as we wrote.

It’s about Almog Meir Jan21 years old, released from military service three months before his capture and also picked up at the party as was Noa Argamani; Andrey Kozlov, a 27-year-old immigrant to Israel who was working as a security guard at the rave when he was captured; And Shlomi Ziv, 40, also part of the security at the desert party where Aviv Eliyahu, a relative of his wife, and Jake Marlowe, a friend, were also present, both of whom were killed. The four hostages, according to IDF reports, they were freed during a military operation which would have been planned for weeks and would have featured a wounded Israeli soldier.