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Avi Marciano, the father of murdered IDF Cpl. Noa Marciano said he learned of his daughter’s death in Hamas captivity through a video of her last moments shared by Israel activist Shai DeLuca on Wednesday.
He recounted how he saw footage of a medical professional lethally injecting air into his daughter’s veins after she was taken to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
“A medical professional decided to murder her,” Marciano said, describing seeing his daughter in the video “begging for her life.”
Marciano was sent a video where “in the end, one can see Noa. In it, she’s sweating, but there is no life in her body.”
The IDF was bombing and fighting in the area, and Marciano had been wounded, but, according to her father, the injuries she had suffered were not life-threatening.
Marciano said that in the video, his daughter could be seen talking about her family and begging for the bombing to stop, fearing for the other Israelis in captivity.
When Israeli military forces began closing in on the location where she was being held, Marciano's captors took her to Gaza City.
IDF intelligence succeeded in locating murdered soldier, bringing her home for burial
Based on intelligence, the IDF was able to retrieve her body and bring her home to be buried in Israel a week later.
Hamas terrorists blamed Marciano’s death on an Israeli airstrike.
However, the IDF stated that experts said her wounds were more consistent with bullet injuries, and there was an indication that she may have suffered from injuries related to a fall.