Former Hamas hostage Daniella Gilboa was apparently pressured to pretend her personal loss of life for a propaganda video. In an interview with Israel’s Channel 12, Orly Gilboa, Daniella’s mom, detailed the horrifying ordeal.
“One of many captors simply got here to her with a digital camera and mentioned, ‘Daniella, right this moment we’re going to movie you useless.’ She after all pleaded for her life and requested him to not do it,” Orly Gilboa instructed Channel 12. Gilboa additionally mentioned that her daughter was lined in particles and powder to make it seem to be she was killed in an Israeli airstrike.
In November 2024, Hamas claimed that Gilboa was killed in an Israeli airstrike, producing the video of her “useless physique” as proof. Nonetheless, Gilboa was in reality alive and was launched from captivity on Jan. 25, 2025, alongside Liri Albag, Naama Levy and Karina Ariev.
Launched Israeli hostage Daniella Gilboa, a soldier who was seized from her military base in southern Israel in the course of the lethal Oct. 7, 2023, assault on Israel by Hamas, is embraced by her mother and father after being launched as a part of a ceasefire and a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel, in an unknown location, in a handout picture obtained by Reuters on Jan. 25, 2025. (Israel Protection Forces/Handout by way of REUTERS)
Following Hamas’ launch of the video, the IDF mentioned in a press release that it was investigating the state of affairs. The IDF additionally condemned the discharge of the video, saying “Hamas continues to have interaction in psychological terror and act with excessive brutality.”
Hamas made movies of a number of hostages, together with Yarden Bibas, whose spouse and two younger sons had been additionally kidnapped on Oct. 7, 2023. Bibas is seen within the Hamas video, which was launched in November 2023, breaking down as he’s instructed that his household was killed. The destiny of Bibas’ spouse, Shiri, and their sons, Ariel and Kfir, stays unknown.
Gilboa, Albag, Levy and Ariev had been kidnapped by Hamas terrorists from an IDF base in southern Israel in the course of the assaults on Oct. 7, 2023. Agam Berger, who was taken hostage with the opposite feminine troopers, was held for an additional week alone. She was launched from Hamas captivity on Jan. 30, 2025.
Former Hamas hostages Liri Albag, Naama Levy, Daniela Gilboa and Karina Ariev watch as fellow hostage Agam Berger is launched. (Courtesy: IDF)
HAMAS SAYS IT WILL FREE MORE ISRAELI HOSTAGES ON SATURDAY AS ORIGINALLY PLANNED
On the day she was taken hostage, Gilboa was shot within the leg, however the bullet was not eliminated throughout her time in captivity.
In an unique interview with Ynet, Ran Gilboa, Daniela’s father, known as his daughter “a hero who returned from hell.” He additionally revealed that for 2 days after his daughter’s kidnapping, his household didn’t know if she was alive or useless.
“Their captors gave them extra meals within the days main as much as their launch. They had been solely instructed they might be freed three days earlier than it occurred,” Ran Gilboa instructed Ynet.
Israelis had been surprised by the situation of three hostages launched final week, Or Levy, Eli Sharabi, and Ohad Ben Ami, as the lads appeared emaciated. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised that this “wouldn’t be ignored.” Moreover, Israeli President Isaac Herzog mentioned that the “emaciated and pained” males had been a visible illustration of a “crime in opposition to humanity.”
President Donald Trump (left) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (proper). (Getty Photographs/Fox Information Digital)
ISRAELI CABINET BACKS TRUMP’S DEMAND FOR HAMAS TO RELEASE ALL HOSTAGES BY SATURDAY DEADLINE
Hamas and Israel had been engaged in a ceasefire. Nonetheless, the terrorist group threatened to cease hostage releases. President Donald Trump then gave Hamas a deadline of Saturday, Feb. 15, at 12 p.m. to launch the remaining hostages.
“If all of the Gaza hostages aren’t returned by Saturday at 12 p.m., I might say cancel the ceasefire,” Trump mentioned within the Oval Workplace. “Let all hell get away. Israel can override it.”
Trump careworn that Hamas must launch “all of them, not in drips and drabs.”
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Israel’s safety cupboard backed President Trump’s risk, and Prime Minister Netanyahu mentioned in a press release that if the hostages aren’t launched by the deadline, they “will resume intense fight till Hamas is decisively defeated.”
On Thursday, Hamas introduced it could free three extra Israeli hostages as initially deliberate, in accordance with the Related Press.
Greg Norman contributed to this report.