A teenage Israeli hostage said a Hamas gunman told her that he was going to marry her and force her to have his children during her 50-day hostage ordeal.
Noga Weiss, 18, was released after almost two months in captivity. Her father IIlan had been murdered by the terrorists during the October 7 atrocity.
Speaking to Israeli TV’s Channel 12, Ms Weiss said: ‘He gave me a ring on day 14 and I stayed with him until day 50. He told me, “Everyone will be released, but you will stay here with me and have my children”.’
Ms Weiss had to handle the situation with the terrorist calmly despite her constant fear.
Noga Weiss, pictured, told Israeli Channel 12 of her ordeal having spent 50 days in captivity held by Hamas
Ms Weiss and her mother Shiri were freed in a group of 13 Israeli hostages and seven of other nationalities
She said: ‘I pretended to laugh so he wouldn’t shoot me in the head.’
Ms Weiss said she had believed her mother, Shiri was dead until the terror group brought her into her cell dressed in a Hijab.
She continued: ‘One of the Hamas members said he loves me, he wants to marry me and brought my mother to me so she would approve of our marriage. A woman dressed as an Arab entered, and I realised it’s my mother.’
According to The Mirror, Ms Weiss said her mother immediately rejected the proposal and began shouting at the gunman.
She added: ‘I thought they killed her, I thought I was alone. Suddenly she’s alive, and I’m no longer alone.
‘People don’t understand the feeling of fear. I was 50 days, 24/7, with the thought that they would get tired and come shoot me, or they wouldn’t need me in the end. Let’s say at night they lock us in the room, so they open the door in the middle of the night and shoot us without us knowing.’
Ms Weiss said she cannot begin to mourn her murdered father until all the remaining hostages are returned to Israel.
Speaking about the intolerable conditions in captivity, she revealed: ‘They are there for an indescribable amount of time. At one point, they brought us half a litre of water for two days. It does not make sense. You can’t survive like this for 200 days.’
Hamas said on Saturday it was reviewing a new Israeli proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza, as Egypt intensified efforts to broker a deal to end the months-long war and stave off a possible Israeli ground offensive into the southern Gaza city of Rafah.
Senior Hamas official Khalil al-Hayya said the Palestinian militant group was evaluating Israel’s proposal, and ‘upon completion of its study, it will submit its response’.
He gave no details of Israel’s offer but said it was in response to a proposal from Hamas two weeks ago.
Negotiations earlier this month centred on a six-week ceasefire proposal and the release of 40 civilian and sick hostages in exchange for freeing hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
Hamas’s statement came hours after a high-level Egyptian delegation wrapped up a visit to Israel where it discussed a “new vision” for a prolonged ceasefire in Gaza, according to an Egyptian official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
It was not immediately clear whether Israel’s latest response to Hamas on a ceasefire was directly related to Friday’s visit to Tel Aviv by Egyptian mediators.
The discussions between Egyptian and Israeli officials focused on the first stage of a multi-phase plan that would include a limited exchange of hostages held by Hamas for Palestinian prisoners, and the return of a significant number of displaced Palestinians to their homes in northern Gaza ‘with minimum restrictions’, the Egyptian official said.
Hamas sparked the war with its attack into southern Israel on October 7, in which militants killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took some 250 people as hostages. Israel says the militants are still holding around 100 hostages and the remains of more than 30 others.
Since then, 34,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s air and ground offensive, according to the Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza, around two-thirds of them children and women.
Israel has reported at least 260 of its soldiers killed since the start of ground operations in Gaza.
