Shocking moment Israeli student, 25, is kidnapped from desert rave by Hamas ... trends now

Sitting on the back of a terrorist's motorcycle, her outstretched arms pointing towards her helpless boyfriend, student Noa Argamani pleads for her life.

She screams 'Don't kill me! No, no, no' – but the gunman speeds off. Noa hasn't been seen since.

Her boyfriend, Avi Nathan, distraught and helpless, is left behind in the desert. He too is missing.

Widely shared on social media, the footage of Noa's kidnapping is almost too distressing to bear. 'Imagine what it is like for her family,' said her university roommate, Amir Moadi. They found out she had been snatched only when they chanced upon the footage online.

Along with hundreds of other young Israelis, Noa and Avi had been enjoying a peace festival in the desert when they were forced to flee for their lives from Hamas terrorists.

Revellers had gathered for an all-night trance music rave near Kibbutz Re'im, close to the Gaza Strip, to celebrate the end of the Sukkot religious holiday.

But the festivities turned to chaos yesterday morning after Palestinian terrorists began firing rockets and gunshots into the crowd.

Footage circulated on social media showed hundreds of people screaming and crying as they fled the site on foot, pursued by the sound of gunfire.

'I was supposed to go to the desert party but decided at the last minute not to,' said Amir. 'We last heard from her around 10am or 11am this morning when she texted us all to say that terrorists had opened fire and were chasing everyone but that they were both safe in hiding.

'We haven't heard from them since but then, unfortunately, we saw the disturbing videos of her abduction online. One of her on the back of a bike with terrorists.

'The family is OK with us posting this because they want her released and are hoping someone can help.

'Her parents are in shock and can't even speak. She's an only child.

'She is such a lovely, positive woman, always kind and loves to travel. She just got back from Sri Lanka. We can't believe something like this would happen at home.'

Last night, Avi's brother Moshe said: 'My brother just wanted to party with his girlfriend and look what happened.'

The shocking story came as families across Israel woke up yesterday expecting to celebrate one of the holiest days in the Jewish calendar together.

Instead, the festival of Simchat Torah became a day of terror and bloodshed for residents living near the Gaza Strip.

The peace of the holy Sabbath was shattered in the early morning as marauding Hamas gunmen invaded the streets in places such as Sderot, a city less than a mile from the border.

Brazen Hamas fighters knocked on the doors of residents who expected to find Israeli soldiers looking to reassure them about the air-raid sirens.

Instead, innocent mothers with children, settlers and even the frail elderly found themselves the 'war booty' of the masked terrorists, who dragged them away at gunpoint. 

Their actions – which horrified the international community – brought back grim reminders of masked Islamic State terrorists in Syria, who paraded hostages on social media before executing them. 

But one Hamas leader hinted to the world that these hostages, whose number was well over 50 last night, would not be killed but be used as human bargaining chips to have their own prisoners in Israeli jails released.

One terrorism expert added that the captured Israelis could even be used as human shields to stop the Israeli air force – which began pounding Gaza yesterday – from blowing up certain targets.

Horrifying footage on social media showed terrified hostages being taken to Gaza by Hamas fighters, who chanted 'Allahu akbar' (God is great) as they led them away. 

In one chilling video, a young Israeli woman, reported as being a soldier on social media, was seen lying in the back of an Israel Defence Forces (IDF) armoured vehicle commandeered by the terrorists. Then she was dragged by her hair out of the boot. Her clothes were drenched in blood.

As she was bundled into the back seat, cheering terrorists armed with Kalashnikov rifles shouted 'Allahu akbar'. The fate of the unidentified woman was not known last night. 

In another ten-second video posted on Telegram, at least five Israeli women with bloodied faces can be seen huddled in the back of a pick-up truck, being taken away as hostages.

Another six-second video showed an Israeli mother with two young boys being captured. In pro-Hamas Twitter accounts, it was said that she was taken under their protection but her fate and that of her children were not known.

Sources at the Israeli embassy in London last night said most of the hostages were taken from seven areas bordering the Gaza Strip, including the city of Ashkelon. It was also reported that several hostages were taken away from a kibbutz in the village of Be'eri, near the Gaza border.

In one case, a video showed an Israeli hostage, completely covered up with a white sheet, being taken away by a group of terrorists in a golf buggy.

Two other videos emerged on X, formerly Twitter, which showed elderly women being taken to Gaza. In one, an Israeli woman wearing a red top was sandwiched between two Hamas terrorists on a motorbike. 

And in grainy mobile phone footage, a female pensioner was driven away in a buggy with three armed terrorists on board.

Last night it was also reported that a mother and her two daughters, aged two and four, were among Israeli civilians taken hostage by Hamas gunmen and held captive in Gaza.

Sources in the Israeli government admitted that some of their soldiers were captured as hostages but said their identities could not be confirmed until their families were informed.

Grim videos showed one male Israeli soldier taken to Gaza and paraded through the streets while passers-by assaulted him. There were also reports that a senior commander of the IDF was taken hostage but the Israeli government has not confirmed it.

Shoval Kahlon, a resident of Sderot, told the Israeli public broadcaster Kan yesterday: 'We woke up at 6.30am to alarms. We thought it was the usual rocket attacks but we started hearing gunshots on the street. 

'We then started seeing Hamas people in pick-up trucks. They knocked on the homes of residents, who thought they were Israeli soldiers. They took them hostage.'

Saleh al-Arouri, a top Hamas official, told the Al Jazeera television station that his group is holding 'a large number' of Israeli prisoners, including senior officers, adding they will be used to bargain for the release of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. 

There are an estimated 5,200 Palestinians in Israeli jails, including 33 women and 170 minors.

In 2011, Israel secured the release of its soldier Gilad Shalit by freeing more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners. Raffaello Pantucci, a terrorism expert at the RUSI think-tank, said: 'Using hostages as

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