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Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Young Israeli girl, Noa Argamani, seen crying as she got kidnapped on a motorcycle while partying in the south of Israel in a peace music festival.
“We were worried and tried to call, his phone was unavailable and so was hers,” said Moshe in an interview with News 12. “After a few hours, emergency teams contacted us and told us that they saw a video of my brother and his girlfriend moving as they were kidnapped toward the Gaza Strip.” We would like to emphasize that, since this morning, the state authorities have sought to avoid the distribution of other horrific videos published on the networks, in which civilians and soldiers are seen being abducted into the Gaza Strip, alive or dead, and some of them are being abused.
Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip launched dozens of rockets toward Israel early Saturday, setting off air raid sirens across the country and raising the likelihood of a new round of heavy fighting.
Moshe Or, whose brother Avinatan and his brother’s partner, Noa Argamani, were at the rave party in Kibbutz Re’im – this morning viewed a video in which the two are recorded being kidnapped to the Gaza Strip. In the video, Noa is seen on a motorcycle with two terrorists riding on it, and Avinatan is walking next to her, being held by several terrorists. In another video, Noa is seen drinking from a bottle of water, apparently at the place where she was taken inside the Gaza Strip.
Moshe criticized the conduct of the authorities regarding the issue of the missing since the attack began.
“There are dozens more missing and at the moment there is no government agency from the country, anyone official that coordinates this, with the exception of Moked 100 and they do nothing. There are private organizations of people on Instagram and Telegram to gather all kinds of names, and you see lists upon lists. These are dozens if not hundreds of people who are missing,” he said.
The sound of outgoing rockets whooshing through the air could be heard in Gaza and sirens wailed as far away as Tel Aviv, some 70 kilometers to the north, during an early morning barrage that lasted more than 30 minutes. Israel’s Magen David Adom rescue agency said a 70-year-old woman was critically injured when a rocket hit a building in southern Israel. Elsewhere, a 20-year-old man was moderately injured by rocket shrapnel, it said.
Israel has maintained a blockade over Gaza since Hamas, an Islamic militant group that opposes Israel, seized control of the territory in 2007. The bitter enemies have fought four wars since then. There have also been numerous rounds of smaller fighting between Israel and Hamas and other smaller militant groups based in Gaza.
The blockade, which restricts the movement of people and goods in and out of Gaza, has devastated the territory’s economy. Israel says the blockade is needed to keep militant groups from building up their arsenals. The Palestinians say the closure amounts to collective punishment.
The rocket fire comes during a period of heavy fighting in the West Bank, where nearly 200 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli military raids this year. Israel says the raids are aimed at militants, but stone-throwing protesters and people uninvolved in the violence have also been killed. Palestinian attacks on Israeli targets have killed over 30 people.
“In the last hour, a massive firing of rockets into Israeli territory from Gaza began, and terrorists penetrated into Israeli territory in a number of different locations,” a statement by the Israeli army social media platform X.
“Hamas … which is behind this attack, will bear the results and responsibility for the events,” it said.
The attack comes as a military wing of Hamas Al Qassam Bridages announced an operation — ‘Al Aqsa Floods’ and fired thousands of rockets in reponse to the ongoing provocations in Al-Aqsa and the treatment of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. Hamas “will face the consequences and responsibility for these events”, an army statement said.
A woman in her 60s was killed “due to a direct hit” in Israel, the Magen David Adom emergency services said.
Fifteen others were wounded, two of them seriously, medics said.
The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would shortly convene security chiefs over the violence.
– Hamas urges others to join battle –
In a statement posted on Telegram, Hamas called on “the resistance fighters in the West Bank” as well as “our Arab and Islamic nations” to join the battle.
Israel has imposed a crippling blockade on Gaza since 2007 after Hamas took power.
Palestinian militants and Israel have fought several devastating wars since.
The latest fire follows a period of heightened tensions in September, when Israel closed the border to Gazan workers for two weeks. There was no immediate response from Israel. But the Israeli military usually carries out airstrikes in response to rocket fire, raising the likelihood of wider fighting. Although there was no claim of responsibility for the rocket fire, Israel typically holds the ruling Hamas militant group responsible for any fire emanating from the territory.
The launches came after weeks of heightened tensions along Israel’s volatile border with Gaza, and heavy fighting in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
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