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Noa Argamani, one of the four Israeli hostages freed during Israel’s Nuseirat operation on Saturday, has been reunited with her terminally ill mother. 

Liora, who has stage 4 brain cancer, said in December that she wanted to see her daughter before she died.

However, Argamani’s father, Yaakov, said the reunion was “difficult.”

“This was not how I imagined the meeting would go,” Yaakov said, sobbing while speaking to Galatz radio on Sunday.

Yaakov said that, due to the stage of the illness, Liora was barely able to look at Noa. He said his wife understood what was happening but could not express her feelings to Noa. 

Asked how Noa reacted, her father said, “The truth is that we prepared Noa, myself, and the family members for this meeting, understanding it would be different from all the meetings before the kidnapping.”

Despite the difficult reunion, her father said he was still grateful they met, fulfilling her mother’s wish.