Hamas captor gave me a ring, said I’d have his children: Freed Israeli hostage

Noga Weiss, an 18-year-old Israeli woman, who was released in a hostage deal last year after 50 days in Gaza revealed on Thursday that one of her Hamas captors wanted to marry her and wanted her to have his children.

He even brought her a ring and told her everyone would be released, but she would stay in Gaza forever to have and raise his children.

“He gave me a ring on day 14 [in captivity], and I stayed with him until day 50,” Noga recalled, according to The Times of Israel.

“I pretended to laugh, so he wouldn’t shoot me in the head,” she added.

Noga Weiss was with her parents at her home in Kibbutz Be’eri when thousands of Hamas-led terrorists invaded Israel on October 7.

Her father, Ilan, 56, left the home to join the kibbutz emergency squad but never returned. It was later confirmed that he was killed, and his body was taken to Gaza. Ilan had left his wife and daughter in the house’s safe room.

“They started shooting at the door, something like 40 shots, until they managed to get in. We saw the conversations on WhatsApp and understood what was happening. People were writing that their house was on fire and then stopped answering.” Noga recalled.

Noga said her mother urged her to hide under the bed thinking the militants, upon seeing, would kill her but Noga would be safe.

“I went under the bed, and they came in and took her. After they took her outside, I heard gunshots. I thought she was murdered and not kidnapped,” Noga said.

However, her mother, Shiri, was also kidnapped and taken to Gaza on October 7. She was reunited with her daughter after several days.

Noga was moved between various homes throughout her captivity, each time dressed in a hijab and told to hold the hand of her captor, so that onlookers would assume they were married and not Israeli hostages.

“They brought cards for us to play with, and I told myself, ‘I’ll play with them and do whatever they want as long as they don’t shoot. Their moods changed so quickly. One minute they played with us and laughed, the next they’d come in with a gun. You always had to please them,” Noga said.

After several days, her Hamas captor expressed his love for Noga, who revealed that her mother was only brought to her so that she could approve of their marriage.

Even after her mother made clear that she would not accept the marriage, the thought that she would be left in Gaza forever with her Hamas captor never escaped her.

“People don’t understand the feeling of fear. I was 50 days, 24/7, with the thought that they would get tired of me and just shoot me or that they wouldn’t need me in the end, or that they would shoot us while we slept in the middle of the night,” Noga said.

“On the day of my release, seeing soldiers in IDF uniform, it was the first time [since October 7] that I felt safe, so that did change something,” she added.