9/6/2024–|Last updated: 6/9/202404:49 PM (Mecca time)
An Israeli prisoner who was recovered in an Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip said on Saturday that the Israeli army bombed the house where she was previously located, leading to the killing of two prisoners who were in it.
This came in statements by the detained woman, Noa Argamani, on Sunday to the “Israel Today” newspaper, a day after she was recaptured in a military operation in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, which resulted in the martyrdom and injury of hundreds of Palestinian civilians.
Argamani said that she was in captivity with Yossi Sharaabi and Itai Versky, who were killed in an Israeli army bombing of Gaza. She also spoke about an attack launched by the Israeli army on a house in which she was previously detained, saying, “I saw the missile hitting the house, and I was sure that I would die, but I stayed alive.”
She stated that members of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) moved her between houses and allowed her to come out from time to time to breathe air, while she was disguised as an Arab woman.
Argamani’s statements are consistent with her words in a previous video clip, broadcast by the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, on January 15, which confirms that the Israeli prisoners were not forced to make their statements.
At that time, Argamani said, “I was in a building, and it was bombed by a plane belonging to our forces. It fired 3 missiles, two of which exploded, but the third did not. In the building we were with a number of Qassam soldiers and 3 prisoners. I, Noa Argamani, Itay Versky, and Yossi Sharaabi.”
She continued in the video at the time, “After the missile hit the building in which we were all found, we were buried under the rubble, and the Qassam soldiers succeeded in saving my life and the life of Itay, but after that we did not succeed in saving Yossi’s life.” Several days later, she and Itay were transferred to another place, but during an operation Transition Itai was hit by Israeli fire and killed.
Yesterday, the Israeli occupation army announced the recovery of 4 kidnapped Israelis from two separate areas in the heart of Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip, coinciding with the death of 210 Palestinians and the injury of more than 400, on Saturday, in a massacre committed by the occupation forces after a violent artillery and air bombardment that targeted the Nuseirat camp, according to what was announced by the government media office. In Gaza.
Subsequently, the Al-Qassam Brigades said that the Israeli army was able, by committing horrific massacres, to recover some of its prisoners, but at the same time it killed some of them during the operation, without mentioning a specific number.
