TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Hours after being rescued from eight months captivity in Gaza, freed hostage Noa Argamani arrived at a hospital in Tel Aviv to see her terminally sick mom.

Argamani, 26, was one of the vital acknowledged faces among the many hostages kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7. Harrowing footage of her being taken into Gaza on the again of a motorbike, pleading for her life and reaching desperately in direction of her boyfriend being marched alongside her on foot circulated throughout the globe.

Argamani’s boyfriend Avinatan Or remains to be in captivity.

Argamani was rescued on Saturday, together with three different hostages, in an operation by Israeli particular forces from an condominium constructing in central Gaza.

“I’m so happy to be here,” she stated in a telephone name with Israel’s president upon her return, smiling and surrounded by family and friends.

She was later met with cheers upon arrival at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Heart the place her mom, Liora, was being handled for terminal mind most cancers.

Again in October, shortly after her daughter was kidnapped from a music competition turned killing area in southern Israel, Liora, sitting in a wheelchair, was requested in an interview with an area tv station how she imagined their reunion.

“At least to be able to hug her,” Liora answered.

Hospital CEO Ronni Gamzu stated the mom’s situation was “complicated and tough”. He stated Argamani was in a position to

talk together with her mom, who they imagine understood that her daughter had come dwelling.

“For the last eight months we are trying to keep her in a status that she can communicate,” Gamzu stated.

Argamani’s father, Yaakov, first met her after a army helicopter carried her again to Israel.

“Today is my birthday, and a gift like this I never believed I would get,” he stated.

Greater than 360 individuals had been killed in the course of the rampage on the Nova dance competition, and one other 40 had been taken hostage by Hamas, in line with Israeli tallies.

Close by the hospital in central Tel Aviv, at what has develop into often called hostage sq., 1000’s of Israelis rallied to commemorate the rescue of the 4 hostages and to demand the discharge of greater than 115 that stay in Gaza.