It follows a video earlier in which Hamas claimed they would reveal whether three hostages were alive or dead – including Argamani, whose abduction horrified the world.
In the footage they asked viewers ‘what do you think?’ – referring to the fate of the Nova festival attendee Argamani, Yossi Sharabi, 53, and Itai Svirsky, 38.
But a later video showed Argamani claiming the two other captives were killed by ‘our own IDF strikes’, referring to the Israeli military.
The video purports to show the bodies of the two male hostages held in Gaza.
Ms Argamani was speaking as a hostage and Hamas has provided no evidence for the claim that the men were killed in strikes.
In the earlier video, Hamas offered a trio of options for the captives: all three are killed; ‘some are killed, some are injured,’ or all three are spared.
It was a follow-up to a 37-second clip released on Sunday in which the three hostages pleaded with Israel to stop its offensive on Gaza, concluding with the message ‘tomorrow we will inform you of their fate’.
January 14 marked 100 days since Hamas’ shock invasion into southern Israel, storming across the border in cars, vans and by motorised paraglider at daybreak.
Some 1,100 Israelis, mostly civilians, were killed in massacres of kibbutzim and the Nova Music Festival near Re’im.
Noa Argamani was among those enjoying the ‘peace festival’ in the desert when gunmen breached the site and opened fire.
She desperately messaged her friend at 8.10am saying she was in a parking lot and ‘can’t get out’, to which her friend replied: ‘Hide. Let me know that everything is ok’. More than two hours later, she told her friend ‘We don’t have a car’.
That was the last time Noa’s friends and family heard from her, before footage emerged online of her screaming ‘don’t kill me’ as she was taken to Gaza on the back of a motorbike.
As many as 240 hostages were taken on October 7 to be used as leverage in prisoner swaps with Israel, which holds many Palestinians – civilians and suspected terrorists – in prisons.
Some 110 were later released in exchanges for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners during a temporary halt in the fighting.
Those who were returned revealed the dire conditions hostages were exposed to within Gaza. Some gave chilling accounts of rape, physical beatings and psychological torture, drawing horrified reactions from family members and Israeli citizens who put more pressure on the government to safely ensure the return of the remaining captives. And the families of the remaining hostages, who include an unspecified but small number of Britons, have repeatedly called on the Israeli government to get them home safely.
However, at the weekend, which marked 100 days since the conflict began, Mr Netanyahu warned that ‘nothing or no one’ would stop Israel’s military operation until it achieved its goal of completely wiping out Hamas.
