Mother of freed hostage Noa Argamani dies of brain cancer after spending her final days with her daughter, who she feared she would not live long enough to see again

The mother of rescued Israeli hostage Noa Argamani has died of brain cancer after spending her final days with her daughter.

Liora Argamani's death comes just over three weeks after Noa was freed from Hamas captivity and brought home by Israeli special forces.

Noa's plight made headlines around the world after the 26-year-old was kidnapped from the Nova festival on October 7, with disturbing footage showing terrorists taking her on the back of a motorbike into Gaza.

Her mother, who had stage four cancer, feared she would not live long enough to  see her daughter again, and pleaded with Hamas to free her and the Israeli and US governments to bring her home.

After at last being reunited with her in June, Liora 'spent her final days alongside her daughter Noa, who returned from captivity, and her close family,' the hospital where she was being treated said in a statement as it announced her death today.

'We relay the family's request to respect its privacy at this difficult time,' Icholov Hospital in Tel Aviv said in the statement.

Israeli troops rescued Noa and three other hostages after 245 days in the Gaza Strip in the largest and most successful rescue operation of the war on June 8.

Noa was seen being directed by her rescuers to a car before being pulled out of Gaza in a military helicopter and returned safely to a hospital in Ramat Gan, Israel .

Three commandos from Yamam, Israel's national counter-terrorism unit, involved in the rescue revealed that the first thing Noa did upon being rescued was ask about her mother.

In an interview with Israeli magazine Walla, one of the commandos said: 'Her first question was whether her mother was still alive. I told her yes. 

'She looked right and left at us and asked again if we were sure. We told her yes, "that's why we came, to bring you back to your mother."' 

Emotional scenes showed Noa reunited with her father Yakov on his birthday - the first time in more than half a year that they had seen each other since her capture.

She was pictured hugging her father and reintegrating back into civilian life, enjoying a coke and smiling and laughing as she spoke with friends and loved ones.

Within hours she was rushed to the Ichilov Medical Centre in Tel Aviv to see her mother. Reports at the time suggested the pair would be treated alongside each other in hospital.

On Saturday, Noa shared a video describing how her 'biggest worry' in Hamas captivity was for her parents.

A much healthier looking Noa said that after her time in captivity it was 'a great privilege to be by my mother's side... It's a great privilege to see my parents, surrounded by so many good people.'

She also called for 'everything possible' to be done to free those still trapped in Gaza - including her boyfriend.