'It can never end until they are home,' 'brother of Israeli hostage on fight for his return

ITV News

11-07-2025

Guy Gilboa Dalal and his brother Gal both attended the Nova music festival on October 7 when Hamas gunmen swarmed the area, as ITV News Senior International Correspondent John Irvine reports.
When Guy Gilboa Dalal announced he was going to the Nova music festival, his older brother Gal decided to go with him.
It was 22-year-old Guy's first festival: Gal wanted to look after him, as any big brother would.
When Hamas began their attack, Gal urged Guy to get into his car. But Guy was reluctant to abandon his friends, and the two brothers separated.
In the ensuing chaos, as Hamas militants riddled festival-goers' cars with automatic fire, Gal escaped the massacre in which 378 people died, but Guy became a hostage. So began 21 months of agony for both.
'I don't think anyone else can relate to what we're going through. I feel like every day we go through the same process, of losing faith, losing hope, finding it again, thinking about Guy, getting stronger for him,' said Gal.
'I go to sleep with him, I wake up with him. I can actually hear his screaming from the tunnels, telling me if I did enough today, what I'm doing to help him get out of there. As long as I'm here, I'm his voice and I have no other option than do everything I can for him.'
Guy's condition is now unknown. He was last seen alive in February, when Hamas took him and his best friend, Evyatar David, to watch other hostages, their friends, being released. They had been tricked into believing that they, too, were going to be freed. A Hamas propaganda video shows them in the back of a car, gaunt, shaven-headed, pleading to be saved.
'That was the first time they were taken out of the tunnels in 400 days. They were staying in the same small, narrow tunnel, unable to move, with the same light, so they don't know when it's day or when it's night. They're abused on a daily basis, they're getting a lot of beatings, they're always hungry.'
Gal says Hamas inflicted further psychological torture on Guy by telling him that Gal himself is dead.
He has travelled the world with other relatives of hostages to raise support for the Bring Them Home Now campaign. Israel says 50 hostages remain in Gaza, 20 thought to be alive, 30 dead.
As Israel and Hamas inch towards a new ceasefire, Gal's hopes are rising. But even if Guy is released, he will continue to campaign for the remaining captives.
'I can't stop fighting until all the hostages return. We are all one big family now. It can never end until they are home.'