Noa Marciano | |
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 Memorial stone for Noa Marciano in the Female observers memorial | |
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| Known for | Her abduction to Gaza during October 7 attacks |
Noa Marciano was a 19-year-old Israeli soldier who was abducted by Hamas on October 7, 2023 from an IDF observation base on Nahal Oz.
Noa Marciano was serving as a lookout on an IDF base near the Gaza border in the Kibbutz Nahal Oz where she was kidnapped by Hamas and taken into Gaza along with 250 other Israelis. [1] Marciano was from Modi’in, Israel and served in the Combat Intelligence Collection Corps of the 414th Regiment in the IDF at the time of her abduction. [1]
Noa Marciano, who was 19 at the time, was serving as a lookout at the Nahal Oz kibbutz military base near Gaza on October 7, 2023, when the base was overrun by Hamas militants. [2] Many of Marciano's fellow soldiers were murdered, but Marciano was kidnapped and dragged alive into the nearby Palestinian enclave. [3]
Marciano's mother, told Haaretz that she last spoke to her daughter on October 7 at 7:30 A.M.
"She [Marciano] told me she was in a protected space and that there had been an infiltration," Marciano's mother said in the interview, and further added that her daughter than told her mother that she needed to end the call. Marciano's mother said during the call that she did not hear shots or screams. Half an hour later, Marciano's mother sent her a message again, but her daughter did not reply. [1]
In a photograph released a week after the October 7 attacks, a bound Marciano was shown with three other hostages. A week afterwards, the IDF officially informed Marciano's family that she had been kidnapped and taken into Gaza. [1]
On November 13, 2023, more than five weeks after her abduction, Hamas published a video of Marciano in captivity. The IDF said that it had sent officers to talk to Marciano's family after publication of the video, and called the video "psychological terrorism". [1] [2] Hamas claimed in the video that Marciano had died in an Israeli airstrike. [3] [4] The Israeli military said that they had found her body in a building adjacent to Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital and returned the corpse to Israel for burial. [3] [5] Hamas had denied accusations by Israel that the group had kept hostages at Gazan hospitals. [3]
A pathological report conducted by the IDF found that Marciano sustained nonfatal wounds in an Israeli bombing, but was murdered by a Hamas terrorist in the Al-Shifa Hospital. [6]
On November 17, 2023, the body of Noa Marciano, which was recovered from Gaza City, was buried by her family and friends, with Marciano's mother telling mourners she would never forgive what had befallen her daughter, a teenaged conscript soldier. [3]
In early December 2025, Avi Marciano, the father of Noa Marciano, said he learned of his daughter's death in Hamas captivity through a video of her last moments. In the video, Avi Marciano recounted how he saw footage of a medical professional lethally injecting air into his daughter's veins after she was taken to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. "A medical professional decided to murder her," Avi Marciano said, describing seeing his daughter in the video "begging for her life". [7]
On February 4, 2026, the IDF and Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) announced that they had killed Muhammad Issam Hassan al-Habil, a senior Hamas cell commander in Gaza City’s Shati refugee camp, in an airstrike following what the military described as a ceasefire violation.
Israeli authorities stated that interrogations of captured militants indicated al‑Habil had “brutally murdered” Corporal Marciano while she was held captive in Gaza after being abducted on 7 October 2023. [8] Marciano’s mother said the family was told that those responsible had been held to account and described the outcome as justice even though nothing could bring her daughter back. [9] [10]
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