The mother of Hamas hostage Guy Gilboa-Dalal says she has been informed that her son is being held above ground in Gaza City, after the terror group published a video of him last week in which he was in the backseat of a car above ground.
Speaking to Army Radio, Meirav Gilboa-Dalal says that she received confirmation that he is being held alone, and is being used as a “human shield” by his Hamas captors ahead of an impending IDF operation to capture the city.
She does not say who she received the information from.
“I have reached rock bottom,” she says, recalling that she had thought things could not get any worse after Hamas published a video back in February of Gilboa-Dalal and fellow hostage Evyatar David being forced to watch a group of hostages get released. “And today I know that my son is a human shield. And to find out that your son is a human shield — that is rock bottom.”
“We can’t breathe,” she despairs, pleading for the IDF to call off its planned offensive.
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