A teenage Israeli hostage said a Hamas gunman told her he would marry her and force her to have his children during his 50-day hostage situation.
Noga Weiss, 18, was released after almost two months in captivity. His father Illan was murdered by terrorists during the October 7 atrocities.
Speaking to Israeli TV Channel 12, Ms Weiss said: “He gave me a ring on the 14th day and I stayed with him until the 50th day. 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 Israel’s Channel 12 about her ordeal after spending 50 days in Hamas captivity
Ms. Weiss and her mother Shiri were freed among a group of 13 Israeli hostages and seven of other nationalities.
She says: ‘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 terrorist group brought her into their cell wearing a hijab.
She continued: ‘One of the Hamas members said he loved me, wanted to marry me and brought my mother to approve our marriage. A woman dressed as an Arab came in and I realized it was my mother.
According to The Mirror, Ms Weiss said her mother immediately rejected the proposal and began shouting at the shooter.
She added: ‘I thought they killed her, I thought I was alone. Suddenly she’s alive and I’m not alone anymore.
“People don’t understand the feeling of fear. I spent 50 days, 24/7, thinking that they would get tired and come and shoot me, or that they wouldn’t need me anymore. 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 could not begin to mourn her murdered father until all the remaining hostages had been 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 liter of water for two days. It does not mean anything. You can’t survive like this for 200 days.
Hamas said on Saturday it was studying a new Israeli proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza, as Egypt stepped up efforts to broker a deal to end the months-long war and prevent a possible Israeli ground offensive in the town of Rafah, south of Gaza.
Khalil al-Hayya, a senior Hamas official, said the Palestinian militant group was evaluating the Israeli proposal and “once its study is completed, it will submit its response.”
He gave no details of Israel’s offer but said it was a response to a Hamas proposal two weeks ago.
Negotiations earlier this month focused on a proposed six-week ceasefire and the release of 40 civilian and sick hostages in exchange for the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
The Hamas statement comes hours after a high-level Egyptian delegation concluded its visit to Israel where it discussed a “new vision” for an extended 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 regarding a ceasefire was directly linked to Friday’s visit to Tel Aviv by Egyptian mediators.
Discussions between Egyptian and Israeli officials focused on the first step 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 north of Gaza. with minimal restrictions,” the Egyptian official said.
Hamas sparked the war with its attack in southern Israel on October 7, in which militants killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took some 250 people hostage. Israel says militants still hold around 100 hostages and the remains of more than 30 others.
Since then, 34,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli air and ground offensive, according to the Health Ministry in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, about 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.
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