The mother of rescued Israeli hostage Noa Argamani has died of brain cancer — just weeks after being granted her dying wish to be reunited with her daughter and embrace her one last time.
Liora Argamani, who had been battling the advanced terminal cancer for some time, was 61.
Her death was announced Tuesday by the the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center where she had been undergoing treatment.
Argamani, who became the face of the Hamas hostage crisis after being kidnapped during the Oct. 7 attacks, spent her final days by her mother’s side, the hospital said.
The 26-year-old China-born Israeli citizen was finally reunited with her ailing mom after she and three other hostages were rescued in a daring Israeli military operation last month.
During her eight months in captivity, Argamani’s sick mom had repeatedly voiced her fears that she would lose her battle with the terminal disease before her daughter returned home.
Argamani, too, has since revealed her “biggest worry” while being held hostage was her parents.
“As an only child to my parents, and a child to a mother with a terminal illness, my biggest worry in captivity was for my parents,” Argamani said in a video released by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum on Saturday.
“It is a great privilege to be here after 246 days in Hamas Captivity. It is great privilege to be by my mother’s side after eight months of uncertainty.”
