Rescued hostage provides first sign of life from Guy Gilboa-Dalal since Oct. 7
Unnamed hostage freed from Gaza in Israeli operation on Saturday says they were severely abused when held in the same room as Gilboa-Dalal a few months ago
One of the hostages rescued from Gaza in a military raid earlier this week said that he was held with Guy Gilboa-Dalal a few months ago, providing the first sign of life to his family, Channel 12 news reported Thursday.
Gilboa-Dalal, 22, was taken hostage by Hamas terrorists on October 7 from the Supernova rave.
According to the rescued hostage, who was not identified by the news outlet, he was held with Gilboa-Dalal and a number of other hostages in the same room.
The freed hostage indicated that while Gilboa-Dalal and the other hostages were in good physical condition at the time, they were severely abused by their captors. The rescued hostage said they were both physically and mentally abused, and received very little food and drink.
The report does not name any of the other hostages held along with Gilboa-Dalal.
According to Channel 12, Gilboa-Dalal’s parents were told on Wednesday that the rescued hostage had seen their son in Gaza. The report said the news gave them hope, as it was the first sign of life from their son since he was seen tied up in a Hamas video on October 7.
Supernova was Gilboa-Dalal’s first rave, and he had been planning for months to go with friends.
His older brother, Gal, drove to the festival early that morning, reaching the site at 5:30 a.m. The two brothers met up, hugged and took a selfie, which Guy sent to their mother.
Then Hamas-led terrorists attacked the festival site, and the brothers attempted to escape — Guy deciding to go with his friends, while Gal headed toward his car. Gal ran for hours, hiding in bushes, a bamboo field and behind trees until he was rescued by security forces.
Noa Argamani, Shlomi Ziv, Almog Meir Jan, and Andrey Kozlov were rescued on Saturday from eight months of Hamas captivity in Gaza in a daring operation by Israeli forces.
The four were also abducted from the Supernova music festival near Kibbutz Re’im on the morning of October 7, when 3,000 Hamas-led terrorists killed some 1,200 people and took 251 hostages in a murderous rampage across southern Israel.
Officers of the police’s elite Yamam counter-terrorism unit, along with Shin Bet agents, on Saturday morning simultaneously raided two multi-story buildings in the heart of Nuseirat, where the four hostages were being held by Hamas-affiliated families and guards of the terror group, according to the military.
Hamas’s government media office claimed at least 274 people were killed amid the operation, an unverified figure that also does not differentiate between combatants and civilians. The IDF acknowledged that it killed Palestinian civilians amid the fighting, but it placed the blame on Hamas for holding hostages and fighting in a dense civilian environment. “We know of something under 100 [Palestinian] casualties. I don’t know how many of them are terrorists,” IDF Spokesman Daniel Hagari said on Saturday.
