Noa Marciano, who was 19 at the time, was serving as a lookout at the Nahal Oz kibbutz military base near Gaza on October 7, 2023, when the base was overrun by Hamas militants. According to
Channel 12, Israeli officials were warned about unusual activity by Hamas in the area hours before the attack, but dismissed the threat posed. Many of Marciano's fellow soldiers were murdered, but Marciano was abducted and dragged alive into the nearby Palestinian enclave. Marciano's mother stated she was awoken to her first phone call at around 6:30 AM where she stated that she was in a
safe room with her friends in their pajamas after being woken up by the attacks, and they could hear shooting outside. Those in the shelter were reportedly panicking and Marciano hung up the phone. Marciano's mother, told Haaretz that she called her daughter back at 7:30 A.M. "She [Marciano] told me she was in a protected space and that there had been an infiltration," Marciano's mother said in the interview. She further added that her daughter than told her mother that she needed to end the call, as they needed to stay quiet. Marciano's mother said during the call that she did not hear shots or screams. Half an hour later, Marciano's mother sent her a message again, but her daughter did not reply. ==Captivity and killing==