Video on social media shows the moment an Israeli woman and her boyfriend were kidnapped after attending a festival in southern Israel near the Gaza border.
Amir Moadi, who is a roommate of the woman seen in the video, told CNN’s Erin Burnett that Noa Argamani’s family asked him to share the video with CNN in the hope that it will help secure her safe release.
Moshe Or, the brother of the man seen in the video, told CNN affiliate Channel 12 in Israel that he approves of the media showing the video. He has indicated on his Facebook page that he wants to get the word out so his brother, Avinatan Or and Argamani, his brother’s girlfriend, can be returned to Israel as soon as possible.
In the video, Argamani can be seen on the back of a motorcycle being driven away as she pleads for help. Or is apprehended by several men and is walking with his hands held behind his back. A dark plume of smoke can be seen in the background of the video. CNN cannot independently verify the video.
“It’s very difficult when you see someone that is so close to you and you know so much being treated like this,” Moadi told CNN. He added that he knows about five or six people who were at the festival that have also gone missing.
“But still, we have people missing. We have friends and families, young and old, everyone that got to Gaza Strip, and we need to do everything, and now to get them back,” he added.
Moshe Or told CNN affiliate Channel 12 that it did not take him long to find the video.
“I saw his girlfriend Noa in the video, scared and frightened, I can’t imagine what’s going through her at all – screaming in panic on a motorcycle, when some scumbags are holding her and they don’t let her go,” he said.
“My brother, who is a big guy, two meters tall, trains four times a week, a really strong guy. They held him maybe four or five people and just led them towards the strip, I guess,” he added.
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