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ARTICLE VIEW:
Hamas releases video of hostages in Gaza City as Israeli military
advances
By Tamar Michaelis, Ibrahim Dahman and Oren Liebermann
Updated:
1:55 PM EDT, Sat September 6, 2025
Source: CNN
Hamas on Friday released a video of two hostages being driven around ,
in a move apparently aimed at swaying Israeli public opinion as the
military ramps up its assault on the city.
The propaganda video shows captive Guy Gilboa-Dalal in a car in several
locations in Gaza City, including outside the Red Crescent
headquarters. Apparently filmed last week, it reveals damaged buildings
through the car window as the unseen driver leads the car through parts
of the city. CNN has geolocated the video to Gaza City.
Toward the end of the video a second hostage, Alon Ohel, 24, appears
alongside Gilboa-Dalal in the car. The two embrace and appear surprised
to see each other. “I can’t believe I’m seeing you,”
Gilboa-Dalal says several times in the video.
It was a rare Hamas hostage video in which captives were filmed above
ground. Gilboa-Dalal, who was likely filmed under duress, says in the
clip that the date of filming is August 28 and that he has been a
hostage for 22 months.
The release of the video came on the 700th day of the war, which was
marked by protests across Israel calling for a ceasefire deal that
would see the hostages released.
It also comes as the Israeli government insists on pressing ahead with
its assault on Gaza City despite objections from hostage families, much
of the international community . The offensive is expected to displace
nearly a million Palestinians and has already exacted a heavy
humanitarian toll. Health authorities said at least seven children were
killed in strikes on Gaza City overnight Thursday.
Last month, Hamas presented by mediators Qatar and Egypt that it says
is almost identical to an offer made by the United States. But Israel
has dismissed it, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying he’ll
accept nothing short of a comprehensive agreement that sees all
hostages released and Hamas disarmed.
In conversations with the hostages’ families, Netanyahu said no video
“will weaken us or divert us” from achieving what he has set as
Israel’s maximalist war goals.
The Hostages and Missing Families Forum responded to the prime minister
by saying that, “Anyone who truly wants to bring back all 48 hostages
– whether for rehabilitation or proper burial – must immediately
send the negotiating team to the negotiating table.”
In the nearly four-minute video, Gilboa-Dalal addresses the planned
Israeli takeover and as he pleads for the Israeli government to bring
him home.
“I heard that you’re going to carry an assault on Gaza City, and
this idea is giving me nightmares. What does it mean?” Gilboa-Dalal
asks. “It means we’ll die here.”
He says there are eight other hostages also held in Gaza City, who
“are going to die here” if the offensive moves forward. CNN can’t
confirm the claim that eight hostages are in Gaza City.
Gilboa-Dalal also calls on Israelis to demonstrate against the
government and to demand an end to the war that would bring home the
remaining 48 hostages, 20 of whom are still believed to be alive.
“We just want this to end. We want to go back to our families.
We’re found adjacent to the military. We’re scared, there are
explosions here, gunfire. Please return us,” he says.
Gilboa-Dalal was last seen in a Hamas propaganda video released in
February, in which he is forced to watch other hostages being freed
during an agreed exchange between Hamas and Israel.
On Friday morning, the Hostages and Missing Families Forum criticized
the . In a statement, the hostage families said they were briefed by
the Israeli military that the offensive would increase the risk to
hostages since the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) lacks precise
information about their location.
“There is a deal on the table – this is what will bring back the
last hostage, this is what will end the war,” the forum said in a
statement.
Military closes in on Gaza City
On Thursday, the IDF said it already controls 40% of Gaza City –
along with more than 70% of the entire besieged territory. The
operation will “expand and intensify” in the coming days, according
to spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin.
Residents in Gaza City told CNN of horrifying nights as Israel bombed
the city from above and ground forces pushed into the outskirts of the
city.
More than a dozen people, including at least seven children, were
killed in strikes on Gaza City overnight Thursday, a spokesperson for
Al-Shifa Hospital said. Videos posted to social media showed doctors
and aid workers treating bloodied and burned children and small bodies
on stretchers being rushed to hospital.
A firefighter from the Gaza Civil Defense said he saw a mother crawling
on the floor, searching for her children as her hands burned. He was
able to save the mother and her son and daughter, who were charred from
the flames, and brought them all to Al-Shifa Hospital.
“I have not and will not be able to overcome this situation for the
rest of my life, and the screams of the mother and her children will
continue to echo in my mind,” the firefighter said.
CNN has reached out to the IDF for comment.
On Wednesday, a UNICEF spokeswoman said Gaza’s children are
“fighting for survival” in Gaza City, which has become a city of
“fear, flight and funerals.”
“The last refuge for families in the northern Gaza Strip is fast
becoming a place where childhood cannot survive,” Tess Ingram said in
New York after a nine-day visit to the city.
Meanwhile, a top European Union official slammed Europe’s inability
to stop a “genocide” in Gaza, the first time a senior EU politician
has described the conflict as such.
“The genocide in Gaza exposes Europe’s failure to speak and act
with one voice, even as protests spread across European cities,”
Teresa Ribera, Executive Vice President of the European Commission, the
executive arm of the bloc, said on Thursday in Paris.
Responding to her comments, a spokesperson for the Israeli foreign
ministry accused Ribera of “baseless allegations.” Oren Marmorstein
posted on X Thursday that Ribera had made herself a “mouthpiece for
Hamas propaganda.”
‘Death in my own home is better than displacement’
With Israeli forces closing in, fear has become a constant reality for
many of the Palestinians within the enclave’s largest city.
“Last night, the Israeli army bombed four houses on the same street
as ours,” said Sabhi al-Rantisi, who lives in the Sheikh Radwan
neighborhood. “It was a very difficult night.”
Al-Rantisi says his wife and two children fled to central Gaza, but he
refuses to be forced out, at least for now.
Only 70,000 Palestinians have so far evacuated Gaza City out of
approximately one million people, a senior Israeli official said
Wednesday, making up less than 10% of the total population. The
overwhelming majority have not moved.
“We haven’t asked formally people to move,” said the official
from Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories
(COGAT) in a briefing. “The large-scale operation hasn’t begun
yet.”
Abu Yasser Al-Khour, a 51-year-old father of six, said he will not flee
again.
“I am staying in my home and will not be displaced again, until my
last breath, even if it means death, because we are exhausted from
displacement,” he told CNN.
A shortage of water, medicine, and cash has gripped Gaza City, he said.
His work as a driver disappeared long ago, but like most of city’s
population, he refuses to leave.
“Life in displacement is unbearable, fetching water, collecting wood
for cooking,” he said. “In summer we die from heat, in winter we
die from cold. In every case, death in my own home is better than
displacement.”
CORRECTION: This story has been updated to correctly identify Alon
Ohel’s age.
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