The mom of rescued Israeli hostage Noa Argamani has died of mind most cancers — simply weeks after being granted her dying want to be reunited along with her daughter and embrace her one final time.
Liora Argamani, who had been battling the stage 4 most cancers for a while, was 61.
She “spent her closing days alongside her daughter Noa, who returned from captivity, and her shut household,” the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Heart stated in a press release on Tuesday asserting her dying.
The 26-year-old China-born Israeli citizen — who turned the face of the Hamas hostage disaster after being kidnapped on Oct. 7 — was lastly reunited along with her ailing mother after she and three different hostages had been rescued in final month’s daring Israeli army operation.
Throughout her eight months in captivity, Argamani’s sick mother had repeatedly voiced her fears that she would lose her battle with the terminal illness earlier than her daughter returned dwelling.
In December, she begged President Biden and the US to assist rescue her daughter.
“I’m terminally unwell with stage 4 mind most cancers,” she wrote in a letter to Biden. “All that’s working by way of my thoughts earlier than I half methods with my household endlessly is the possibility to hug my daughter, my solely youngster, one final time.”
Argamani, too, has since revealed her “largest fear” whereas being held hostage was her mother and father.
“As an solely youngster to my mother and father, and a baby to a mom with a terminal sickness, my largest fear in captivity was for my mother and father,” Argamani stated in a video launched by the Hostages and Lacking Households Discussion board on Saturday.
“It’s a nice privilege to be right here after 246 days in Hamas Captivity. It’s a nice privilege to be by my mom’s aspect after eight months of uncertainty.”
Within the days after being reunited along with her mother, hospital workers had revealed the sick mom’s situation was “difficult and hard.”
The hospital’s CEO, Ronni Gamzu, had revealed Argamani was capable of at the very least talk along with her mom, who they imagine understood her daughter had returned dwelling safely.
“For the final eight months we are attempting to maintain her in a standing that she will talk,” the CEO stated on the time.
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