Mother of released female hostage: Hamas filmed her as if she was dead

Orly Gilboa, the mother of released female soldier hostage Daniella Gilboa, says that Hamas filmed her daughter as if she was dead during her time in captivity.

“One of the captors simply came to her with a camera and said to her, ‘today we are filming you dead,” the mother says in an interview with Channel 12.

“She pleaded for her life and asked they don’t do it,” she says, describing how they covered her in powder and debris to make it look like she had been hit in an IDF airstrike.

She says that Daniella apologized for any part she could have played in her parents thinking she was dead.

“When she saw me and my husband for the first time, she apologized for how she caused us to feel this whole time,” she says.

At the time, a spokesman for Hamas’s military wing claimed that “one of the enemy’s female prisoners was killed in an area that is under Zionist aggression in the northern Gaza Strip.” Alongside the statement, Hamas published a blurred picture of a body it claimed belonged to the slain hostage. While it did not identify the woman, the image quickly led to speculation that it could be Daniella Gilboa since it featured a tattoo identical to one she had.