Less than twenty-four hours after the publication by the armed wing of Hamas of a video of hostage Noa Marciano, the Israeli army confirmed the death of this 19-year-old soldier.
The Israeli army confirmed on October 14 the death of Noa Marciano, a 19-year-old Israeli soldier. The latter was taken hostage on October 7 during the Hamas attack, while she was stationed at an observation post on kibbutz Nahal Oz, near Gaza.
Monday, November 13, the armed wing of Hamas broadcast at 8 p.m. (French time) a video of a little over a minute first showing the young woman facing the camera. Visibly reading a text under duress, the young woman gave her identity, explained that she had been detained in Gaza for four days and mentioned the bombings of the enclave which she asked to stop. The young woman said her name was Noa Marciano, but Hamas (repeated by some headlines) spoke of “Faul Azai Mark Asiani.” The video then cuts to images of his lifeless body, showing serious injuries to his foot and a large wound to his skull.
According to the armed wing of the Islamist organization, Noa Marciano died in an Israeli bombing carried out on November 9 on the Gaza Strip, which her spokesperson had already written on Telegram the day of the alleged strike, assuring then that LE “ The Al-Qassam Brigades will later publish documents proving the truth of this announcement“.
Some Internet users suggested that this death could have been the result of an execution by gun. The skull injury, however, is not consistent with this theory. But if the mutilations of the body can indeed be compatible with a bomb attack, nothing has yet made it possible to establish the cause of the young woman’s death.
For its part, the Israeli army denounces, as every time Hamas uses images of hostages, an enterprise of “psychological terrorism“.
Since the start of the response, Hamas has repeatedly announced the deaths of people detained in Israeli bombings. While the organization is holding between 200 and 250 hostages, the spokesperson for the Al-Qassam Brigades said on Telegram on November 4 that 60 Israeli hostages had been killed by IDF bombings since October 7. Information impossible to verify.
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