The father of an Israeli woman abducted on October 7 has revealed his daughter was murdered in Gaza by a civilian doctor – and that he was later sent a video showing the moment she was killed.
In the footage, Avi Marciano said a medical worker is seen injecting air into his 19-year-old daughter’s veins as she lies on a bed inside Shifa Hospital, begging for her life.
Marciano, who was speaking publicly to a small crowd for the first time, said that by the end of the clip ‘she was sweating and showing no signs of life’.
His daughter was later identified as Cpl Noa Marciano, who the IDF said had suffered injuries during heavy bombing and gunfire but none that were considered life-threatening.
As Israeli forces advanced towards where Noa was being held, her captors moved her to Gaza City, where she was later killed.
Marciano said the video, originally posted on Instagram by Israel activist Shai Deluca, was sent to him on Telegram and showed clearly how his daughter died while in Hamas captivity.
He added that what he went through was the ‘biggest nightmare you could ever imagine’, saying there are mornings he still wakes to the image of her murder replaying in his mind.
‘Noa was my eldest daughter and there’s not a day when he doesn’t miss her,’ he said.
At the end of the heartbreaking talk, Marciano can be seen choking up as he describes what he witnessed, pausing as he is comforted by those around him.
Noa was one of seven female soldiers to be kidnapped from the Nahal Oz military base on October 7 and the only one not to have returned alive.
Her body was recovered from a building adjacent to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City by the IDF in November 2023, and returned to Israel for burial.
Hamas insisted she was killed in an Israeli airstrike.
But the IDF said military experts believed her injuries were more consistent with bullet wounds, with evidence suggesting she may also have suffered trauma from a fall.
It comes after an elderly woman who wished ‘peace’ on her Hamas captors revealed the degrading abuse they inflicted on her while being held hostage for 16 days in Gaza.
Footage from 2023 showed Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, saying ‘shalom’, which means peace in Hebrew, to a Hamas gunman, and shaking his hand, before leaving with a Red Cross worker after spending more than two weeks as a hostage.
Yocheved, wheelchair-bound and dressed head-to-toe in black, spoke to reporters from Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv with her daughter, British citizen Sharone Lifshitz, 52.
She told reporters that the Hamas terrorists viciously attacked her community in their homes on October 7, and that she was beaten with a stick as she was being taken into Gaza.
‘They stormed into our homes. They beat people. They kidnapped others, the old and the young without distinction,’ she said.
She added: ‘The young men hit me on the way. They didn’t break my ribs but it was painful and I had difficulty breathing.’
Yocheved’s daughter added: ‘My mum was saying she was taken on the back of a motorbike, with her legs on one side and her head on another. She was taken through ploughed fields, with men on one side and men behind her.
‘While she was taken, she was hit with sticks until they reached tunnels. There, they walked for a few kilometres on the wet ground.’
Sharone said her elderly mother suffered from bruises and shortness of breath following the beating: ‘When I was on the bike, my legs were on one side and the rest of my body on the other side.
‘The young men hit me on the way. They didn’t break my ribs but it was painful and I had difficulty breathing.’
She was taken into Gaza via the notorious underground tunnels used by Hamas, after her jewelry and her watch was taken off her.
But despite this treatment, Yocheved’s love of fellow man could not be diminished.
When asked why she shook the Hamas terrorist’s hand, she said: ‘Because they treated us very nicely.’
Though much of the press conference was in Hebrew, her daughter answered several questions in English on her mother’s behalf.
Sharone said: ‘They seemed really prepared, like they had concealed it for a long time. They took care of all the women’s needs, shampoo, conditioner.’
She added that her mother said it wasn’t only women who were well looked-after, but all prisoners taken by Hamas.
‘One of the men was badly injured by a motorbike accident on the way, he was treated by paramedics. They kept the place clean, they were very concerned about them.’
She was taken into Gaza via the notorious underground tunnels used by Hamas.
‘There are a huge network of tunnels underneath, it looked like a spiderweb.’
