Evyatar David, Guy Gilboa-Dalal reunite at hospital after being split 2 months before release

Released hostages and childhood friends Evyatar David and Guy Gilboa-Dalal — who spent most of their more than two years in Hamas captivity together — were reunited at Rabin Medical Center in Petah Tikva upon their return to Israel.

Channel 12 reports that the two were separated by their captors about two months ago before being reunited in Israel.

David and Gilboa-Dalal were held together for the majority of their captivity in what their families described as inhumane conditions, enduring daily physical and psychological torture.

The two were seen for the first time since their kidnapping on October 7, 2023, in a Hamas propaganda video released in February, being forced to watch a group of hostages get released, an act widely panned as cruel psychological torture.