Noa Argamani, an Israeli woman freed from Hamas captivity in Gaza in June, said on Friday that her injuries were caused by an Israeli air strike during her rescue operation, not by a Hamas attack.
Speaking to diplomats from G7 countries in Tokyo on Wednesday, Argamani detailed her ordeal after she was taken captive by Palestinian armed groups during the 7 October attack. However, two days later, she issued a statement on Instagram, saying that some of her remarks had been misquoted and taken out of context.
Contrary to some Israeli media reports, Argamani clarified that she was not beaten or had her hair shaved by Palestinian fighters.
“[Hamas members] did not hit me while I was in captivity, nor did they cut my hair; I was injured by the collapse of a wall caused by an [Israeli] Air Force pilot,” she added.
So how many hostages is this that have said Hamas treated them well, it was Israel that hurt them? Because I can think of at least 2 others.
Clearly the wall that the brave Israeli Air force pilot collapsed was hamas.
Can anyone provide a news link to a reputable source to confirm? Not to say I don’t believe it, just “trust but verify” and I’m unsuccessful in verification
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-815947
Despite media reporting that she was beaten by Hamas, Argamani went to social media on Friday to say that her words had been taken out of context. She said she was not beaten and her hair was not cut.
“I said, I had cuts all over my head and I was hurt all over my body.” Argamani emphasized that her wounds came from the collapse of a building after it was bombed by the IAF.
“As a victim of October 7, I will not allow myself to be victimized once again by the media,” she said.
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“Avinatan, my boyfriend, is still there, and we need to bring them back before it’s going to be too late. We don’t want to lose more people than we already lost,” Argamani said.
Also, a reminder that holding civilians hostage is a war crime.
raping civilian hostages is also a crime but israeli society doesnt seem to think so
Many in Israel think they should be punished by the military, similar to how the US punished members of the military for the abuses at Abu Ghraib.
Meanwhile Hamas made Yahya Sinwar, the man responsible for the atrocities on October 7, to be their leader.
As much as y’all try to both sides this thing, it’s very clear Hamas are really bad people.
I tend not to blame the beaten dog for biting the kid, instead I blame the man who beat the dog to that point.
Both Hamas and the IDF are evil bastards only interested in harming the other, even if it means killing innocents. No excuses for either side.
“both sides both side both sides”
How about we demand that Hamas leave their underground lairs and battle the IDF a safe distance away from the civilian population?
I’m sure the IDF would agree to those terms, but do you honestly believe Hamas would?
Hamas would probably be fine with that if the IDF came to the fight in rags with 50 year old AKs and Molotovs.
When both sides are killing children and innocents, both sides are evil.
“We got the terrorist, but had to bomb a school full of kids” isn’t the action of a good society.
How about concentration camps and black market organ trade?
I think you may have gone too deep down a rabbit hole that I’m not familiar with. A rabbit hole I’m not interested in.
I’m talking about Hamas war crimes, please make an effort to stay on topic.
That’s such a clear representation of what’s wrong with your entire view of this. Absolutely refusing to acknowledge the 80 years of Israel crimes against the palastinians cause you don’t wanna focus on that. They are interconnected. Cause and effect. Easy. Simple.
Why does Hamas refuse to allow the red cross access to inspect hostages?
Israel has impersonated aid/medical workers to assault hospitals multiple times in this conflict. So yea I wouldn’t trust them either.
Hamas doesn’t have to be good for Israel to be bad.
and israel being worse than hamas doesn’t absolve hamas of all responsibility either?
Like why was she a hostage in the first place?
Israel is a functional democracy and Gaza is a failed terrorist state. They are not equal in any form or fashion.
They both employ terrorism
I don’t see the IDF hiding behind their women and children in the tunnels they forced children to build for them.
I don’t see the Palestinians surrounding Israel with walls, controlling all their movement, turning off their supplies of clean water and medicine, raping and beating them in prison, detaining them arbitriliy, levelling their cities, destroying their hospitals, stealing their homes, destroying their olive groves etc etc.
One is an apartheid state. The other is an occupied victim.
Clearly, this woman is Hamas. /s
More seriously though, Hamas not mistreating her beyond the initial act of kidnapping makes sense. The entire purpose of taking hostages is to use the threat of harm as leverage. So there’s incentive to keep them in relatively good condition, because as soon as anything happens to them that leverage is lost. Of course, people don’t always remember that, and the whole thing relies on all parties involved at least pretending to act in good faith.
Any idea why Hamas doesn’t execute hostages? Not to sound callous or anything. Just curious if you know if their religion forbids it or something
That would defeat the whole point of taking hostages in the first place.
Seems they didn’t count on Israel being willing to kill hostages.
Thank God she was only held against her will and not beaten or mistreated otherwise.
14,000 dead Palestinian children wish they could say the same.
Judging by the estimated - in a study published in Lancet - almost 200,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza in this ongowing attack and until a few montsh ago, and the proportion of under 18 in that population (around 40%), that number is a serious under estimation and the reality is more likely 4 or 5 times more children murdered by Israel than those 14,000.
My apologies, I just took the first number on Google.
One child is too many.
Palestinians have no freedom of movement. Every single person in Gaza is being held against their will.
I’d imagine the Palestinians being r*d in detention centers would love to be treated so kindly.
If you’re going to censor yourself, it’s critical to account for the right number of letters, or nobody will know what you’re talking about.
Right now, I’m imagining a bunch of Palestinians on skateboards doing tricks and being fucking RAD.
Isnt it a bit odd that you have two sources saying completely opposite things.
After all she either said it or she hasnt.
Its good we actually have a video recording of her in her voice saying she was beaten.
Very odd. have you considered israeli hasbara trolls lie and post stuff out of context. And then that later gets clarified by herself.
Surely that never happened before
I don’t get it. Did she or did she not get her hair cut and was beaten? This post appears to be stating the complete opposite.
Edit: never mind. This is the original video that was taken out of context. The cuts and bruises were from the collapsed wall.
She was beaten by hammas. The bruises she had when she was rescued were from the rescue probably or from some IDF bombing. From this people are trying to portray as if she was treated well in captivity as if she was some prisoner of war held with good conditions.
just give up already… you’re embarrassing yourself
Please point to what exactly is wrong in what I said.
She was beaten by hammas.
She clearly said, she wasn’t.
… bruces from the rescue… probably
your subjective speculation.
