His brother’s keeper: Gal Dalal pleads for help as his brother Guy suffers in Hamas captivity

Gal Dalal has spent astir a twelvemonth and a fractional warring for the merchandise of his brother, Guy Gilboa-Dalal, who was kidnapped by Hamas from the Nova euphony festival during the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks connected Israel. 

Dalal wants the satellite to cognize who his member was earlier helium was a look connected a poster and wherefore getting Guy retired of Gaza is urgent.

"So, my member is the astir warm-hearted antheral I know. He's a very, precise comic guy," Dalal told Fox News Digital. "For me, he's really my champion friend. We stock the aforesaid interests and hobbies and we bash everything together."

Guy Gilboa-Dalal was kidnapped from the Nova euphony festival connected Oct. 7, 2023. His household has been warring for his merchandise ever since. (The Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

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On Oct. 7, 2023, Guy was successful the mediate of experiencing his first-ever spiritual festival with his friends erstwhile Gal, a much seasoned festival goer, joined the radical astatine astir 6:15 a.m., little than 15 minutes earlier the onslaught began.

Dalal told Fox News Digital that erstwhile helium arrived astatine the festival, an excited Guy ran up to hug him earlier pulling retired his telephone to instrumentality a selfie for their mother.

"That’s the lone crushed I went determination [to the Nova euphony festival] was to ticker implicit him. And, you know, the information that I came backmost without him, I deliberation that’s the worst portion of it for me," Dalal told Fox News Digital.

Neither of the Dalal brothers could person known what was coming next. As the sirens began to sound, Dalal told Fox News Digital that helium suggested that the radical spell to his apartment, and they agreed. While Dalal went successful his ain car, Guy decided to spell with his friends. Dalal estimates that Guy and his friends took an further 10 minutes earlier leaving the festival area. At this point, they were not alarmed contempt the rocket sirens blaring.

Israeli soldiers inspect the burnt cars of festival-goers astatine the tract of an onslaught connected the Nova Festival by Hamas gunmen from Gaza, adjacent Israel's borderline with the Gaza Strip, successful confederate Israel, Oct. 13, 2023. (REUTERS/Amir Cohen)

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"We [are] utilized to these alarms. We [are] utilized to missiles onslaught and nary 1 thought it's going to beryllium a panic onslaught successful this benignant of scale," Dalal told Fox News Digital.

Safety protocol for rocket attacks is wide known successful Israel. There are designated amounts of clip to question structure depending connected the location’s region from Gaza. Many astatine the Nova festival ran to shelters connected the broadside of the road, which would aboriginal crook retired to beryllium deadly. Hamas terrorists utilized the shelters to transportation retired wide killings. They would propulsion grenades into groups of people, galore of whom did not survive.

Dalal told Fox News Digital that extracurricular the festival, helium sat successful postulation for astir 20 minutes earlier helium heard shooting. From there, helium spent hours moving for his life. He was excessively acold to spell backmost for Guy, but the 2 were capable to speech connected the telephone 1 past clip earlier Guy was taken hostage.

The Dalal household recovered retired connected Oct. 7 that Guy and his champion friend, Evyatar David, were taken hostage. Hamas published a video of the 2 kidnapped men already successful Gaza. Guy and Evyatar went to the festival with 2 different friends, some of whom were killed.

Dalal and his household person spent the past 17 months advocating for the merchandise of each the hostages, including Guy. 

"I ever accidental that successful 1 hand, we are truthful tired. We are virtually connected the edge. This combat is taking truthful overmuch retired of us, and the lone happening that we truly attraction astir is my member seeing him again, knowing that he's good and protecting him. Hug him. Help him to heal. We miss him truthful much, I miss him truthful much," Dalal told Fox News Digital.

Meirav Gilboa-Dalal and Gal Gilboa-Dalal, parent and member of Guy Gilboa-Dalal, an Israeli held hostage by the Palestinian Islamist radical Hamas, be a property league aft gathering with Pope Francis successful Rome connected April 8, 2024. (REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane)

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Recently, the Dalal household received a motion of life, but it was not a relieving sight. Guy and Evyatar were forced to instrumentality portion successful a Hamas propaganda video, successful which they were forced to beryllium successful a van and ticker hostages beryllium released lone to person the doorway slammed successful their faces.

Dalal told Fox News Digital that the video brought him backmost to Oct. 7 and showed the "psychological torture" the families of hostages endure. He says it’s wide that his member and Evyatar are being "starved to death."

"It scares maine that this dialog tin instrumentality much time, and Guy doesn’t person the time," Dalal told Fox News Digital. However, helium believes that President Donald Trump and the U.S. person the powerfulness to bring the hostages home.

In his combat for his brother’s freedom, Gal traveled to the U.S. and met with members of some the Biden and Trump administrations. He said that gathering the Trump officials felt "different" and that they understood that clip is not connected their side.

"I deliberation that the lone 1 who tin truly enactment the unit and bring these hostages backmost and marque definite that they volition instrumentality to their families is President Trump and United States arsenic a nation, you person the powerfulness of that, the powerfulness and the enactment that we request to marque definite the hostages volition instrumentality and volition travel backmost home," Dalal told Fox News Digital.