AfriPulse
By OLIVIA ALLHUSEN, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER
Published: 08:50, 11 December 2025 | Updated: 13:37, 11 December 2025
The father of an Israeli woman abducted on October 7 has revealed his daughter was murdered in Gaza by a civilian doctor – and that he was later sent a video showing the moment she was killed.
In the footage, Avi Marciano said a medical worker is seen injecting air into his 19-year-old daughter’s veins as she lies on a bed inside Shifa Hospital, begging for her life.
Marciano, who was speaking publicly to a small crowd for the first time, said that by the end of the clip ‘she was sweating and showing no signs of life’.
His daughter was later identified as Cpl Noa Marciano, who the IDF said had suffered injuries during heavy bombing and gunfire but none that were considered life-threatening.
As Israeli forces advanced towards where Noa was being held, her captors moved her to Gaza City, where she was later killed.
Marciano said the video was sent to him on Telegram and showed clearly how his daughter died while in Hamas captivity.
He added that what he went through was the ‘biggest nightmare you could ever imagine’, saying there are mornings he still wakes to the image of her murder replaying in his mind.
The father of an Israeli woman abducted on October 7 has revealed his daughter was murdered in Gaza by a civilian doctor. In the footage, Avi Marciano said the medical worker can be seen injecting air into his 19-year-old daughter’s veins as she lies on a bed inside Gaza’s Shifa Hospital, begging for her life
At the end of the heartbreaking talk, Marciano can be seen choking up as he describes what he witnessed, pausing as he is comforted by those around him
Cpl Noa Marciano was killed by Hamas after being abducted on October 7
Marciano said the video was sent to him on Telegram and showed clearly how his daughter died while in Hamas captivity
‘Noa was my eldest daughter and there’s not a day when I don’t miss her,’ he said.
At the end of the heartbreaking talk, Marciano can be seen choking up as he describes what he witnessed, pausing as he is comforted by those around him.
Noa was one of seven female soldiers to be kidnapped from the Nahal Oz military base on October 7 and the only one not to have returned alive.
Her body was recovered from a building adjacent to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City by the IDF in November 2023, and returned to Israel for burial.
Hamas insisted she was killed in an Israeli airstrike.
But the IDF said military experts believed her injuries were more consistent with bullet wounds, with evidence suggesting she may also have suffered trauma from a fall.
It comes after the Daily Mail revealed the inside of Gaza’s terror tunnels where many of the 254 hostages taken by Hamas were held captive.
Video footage shows reporter Natalie Lisbona crawling on all fours into the entrance of the dark passage that leads to one of the terror group’s largest underground networks.
IDF intelligence located her body and brought her home for burial a week after her death. Hamas insisted she was killed in an Israeli airstrike
Soldiers carry the coffin of Israeli soldier Corporal Noa Marciano at Modi’in Military Cemetery on November 17, 2023
Lisbona describes the tunnel as ‘one of the most harrowing places on earth’.
‘I cannot stretch out my arms. I can barely see a few centimetres ahead. Without my torch, I would walk face-first into the walls,’ she said.
‘The air is thin and stifling; within minutes my chest tightens, heat overwhelms me, and my voice catches as I try to record a video.’
The maze is where the body of Lieutenant Hadar Goldin, Israel’s longest-held hostage, was hidden for more than 11 years.
He was killed at just 23 during the 2014 Operation Protective Edge, an IDF incursion into the Strip aimed to stop Hamas firing rockets into Israel.
Lt Goldin’s death came minutes after a 72-hour ceasefire was meant to begin. His family never gave up hope of recovering his body and last month they were finally able to bury him following an intelligence breakthrough.
Lisbona was embedded with the Israeli military which was showing a small group of international journalists the labyrinth beneath Rafah, southern Gaza, for the first time.
It is 7km (4.3miles) long, contains 80 hideouts, and runs beneath a dense residential district near the Philadelphi Corridor that borders Egypt.
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