Hamas released a sick new propaganda video on Friday of two gaunt-looking hostages being forced to beg Israel to stop bombing Gaza City.
Guy Gilboa-Dalal and Alon Ohel, both now 24, were filmed being driven around the city in footage released almost 700 days after they were abducted from a music festival during the Oct. 7, 2023 terror slaughter. It’s unclear when the video was actually taken.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasted the release as “cruel propaganda.”
Video of Guy Gilboa-Dalal, a hostage, speaking from a car. Al-Qassam BrigadesIn the edited video, an exhausted-looking Gilboa-Dalal is shown speaking — likely under duress — for roughly three minutes as he pleads for an end to the war and the return of the remaining hostages.
He says he is being held in Gaza City along with several other hostages and that he is afraid of being killed by Israel’s offensive on the city.
“This is all we want, we just want it to end,” he said in the clip. “We want to return to our families. Please bring us back.”
Guy Gilboa is one of the hostages in the video.
Gal Gilboa-Dalal’s brother Guy was kidnapped during the invasion by Hamas in Israel on October 7, 2023. James MesserschmidtAt one point, Gilboa-Dalal is seen being driven to meet Ohel near the Red Cross headquarters in Gaza City – adding that he can’t believe he is still alive after 22 months of captivity.
The two hostages are among the 48 people – 20 of whom are thought to be alive — still being held by Hamas in Gaza.
Shortly thereafter, Gilboa-Dalal’s family released a 28-second clip from the video in which Ohel did not appear. In it, Gilboa-Dalal says that the date is Aug. 28, 2025.
In the video, Gilboa-Dalal is seen being driven in a car and meeting Ohel near the Red Cross headquarters in Gaza City. AFP via Getty ImagesHuman Rights Watch ripped Hamas and other terror groups in Gaza for releasing videos of hostages, calling it inhumane treatment that amounts to a war crime.
Previous hostages have said their captors told them what to say in similar videos.
The release of the footage comes after Netanyahu ordered the military last month to capture Gaza City in a bid to wipe out the last remaining remnants of the terror group.
Since then, tens of thousands of Israelis have staged weekly demonstrations calling for an end to the war to secure the hostages’ release.
Alon Ohel, 22, a Serbian citizen, took refuge in a shelter after the festival came under attack.
Ohel was taken captive by Hamas terrorists from a field shelter near the Supernova music festival on October 7, 2023. Instagram / @bring.alon.homeAfter the release of the video, Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid urged Israeli negotiators to resume talks on a deal to secure the hostages.
Hamas has said it would release some hostages for a temporary ceasefire. Netanyahu, however, is pushing for an all-or-nothing deal with Hamas releasing all hostages and surrendering.
Defense Minister Israel Katz vowed Friday that military operations would only intensify until Hamas accepts Israel’s conditions for ending the war – or the group will be destroyed.
With Post wires
