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| Hamas publishes video of hostages Guy Gilboa-Dalal, Alon Ohel ahead of IDF’s Gaza City op |
| 2025-09-06 |
| [IsraelTimes] Clip is first footage of Ohel; Hostage Families Forum says IDF warned them captives’ exact locations unknown, new offensive will put them at risk; protests mark 700 days since Oct. 7 attack The Hamas terror group on Friday released a propaganda video showing hostages Alon Ohel and Guy Gilboa-Dalal, who have spent 700 days in the terror group’s captivity since their abduction on October 7, 2023. The video was released as a major new Israeli offensive looms in Gaza City — where Gilboa-Dalal says in the clip that he is located. The footage released by Hamas on Friday was the first time Ohel has been seen in a video since he, Gilboa-Dalal and 249 others were taken hostage during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attack on Israel. Defense officials have warned that the takeover operation will put the hostages at greater danger, and the Hostages and Missing Families Forum on Friday urged the government to secure a deal for the captives’ release rather than go forward with the new campaign. Gilboa-Dalal’s family approved a 28-second clip from the longer video for publication, in which he says the date is August 28, 2025, and that he is being held by Hamas’s Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades in Gaza City. Gilboa-Dalal is shown with short hair, wearing a dark blue shirt, and displaying expressions of distress, placing his face in his hands. In part of the video, he appears to be sitting in the backseat of a car aboveground. In remarks likely dictated to him by his captors, he pleads for his release. “This is all we want, we just want it to end,” he says. “We want to return to our families. Please bring us back.” A clip of a video of hostage Guy Gilboa-Dalal published by Hamas on September 5, 2025, and authorized for publication by Gilboa-Dalal’s family. Ohel’s family did not consent to the publication of any portions of the footage in which he can be seen. Gilboa-Dalal was last seen in a video in February, during a ceasefire, when Hamas forced him and another captive, Evyatar David, to watch the release of other hostages. Gilboa-Dalal’s family said in a statement: “Guy, Alon and other hostages were taken to Gaza and we fear greatly for their lives. We must bring them home.” |
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