Former Hamas hostage Daniela Gilbore appears to have been forced to forge her own death for a propaganda video. In an interview with Daniela's mother, Orly Gilbore, on Israeli Channel 12, she detailed the horrifying ordeal.
“One of the prisoners came to her with her camera and said, 'I'm going to die and film you today.” She of course appealed to her life and asked her not to do that,” Gilbore told Channel 12. Gilbore also said her daughter was covered in shards and powder so that it appears that she was killed in an Israeli airstrike.
In November 2024, Hamas produced a video of her “corpse” as proof, claiming that Gilboa was killed in an Israeli airstrike. However, Gilboa was actually alive and was released from prison on January 25th, 2025 alongside Lili Albag, Nama Levi and Karina Aliyev.
The Israeli hostage Daniela Gilboa is a soldier seized from an army base in southern Israel on October 7, 2023, and Hamas' attack on Israel was released as part of a ceasefire and hostage. , accepted by parents. The prisoners exchanged deals between Hamas and Israel in unknown locations in photographs of handouts obtained by Reuters on January 25, 2025. (Distribution materials via Israeli Defense Force/Reuters)
After the release of Hamas video, the IDF said in a statement it was investigating the situation. The IDF also denounced the release of the video, saying “Hamas continues to engage in psychological fear and continues to act in extreme atrocities.”
Hamas has produced videos of multiple hostages, including Yaden Bibas, who was also invited on October 7, 2023. Vivas will be seen on Hamas video released in November 2023. The family was killed. The fate of Vivas' wife, Ciri, and his sons Ariel and Kfir, remains unknown.
Gilboa, Albag, Levi and Ariek were lured into Hamas terrorists from IDF bases in southern Israel during the attack on October 7, 2023. She was released from a prisoner of war in Hamas on January 30, 2025.
Former Hamas hostages Lili Albag, Nama Levi, Daniela Gilboa and Karina Allie Watch have been released as fellow hostage Agum Burger. (Commentary: IDF)
Hamas says it will release more Israeli hostages on Saturday, as originally planned.
The day she was taken hostage, Gilbore was shot in the leg, but the bullet was not removed in captivity.
In an exclusive interview with YNET, he ran through Daniela's father, Gilbore, calling his daughter “the hero who returned from hell.” He also revealed that for two days after her daughter invited her, his family didn't know if she was alive or dead.
“Their prisoners gave them more food in the days leading up to their release. They were told they would be released three days before it happened,” Ran Gilbore told Ynet. .
The Israelis were unconscious of the three hostages released last week, or the state of Levi, Eli Sharabi and Ohad Ben Ami, who appear to have seen the men appear to be in debilitating. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised that this will not be “ignored.” Furthermore, Israeli President Isaac Herzog said that “debilitated” men were visual representations of “crimes against humanity.”
President Donald Trump (left) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right). (Getty Images/Fox News Digital)
Israeli Cabinet supports Trump's demands on Hamas to release all hostages by Saturday's deadline
Hamas and Israel were engaged in a ceasefire. However, the terrorist group threatened to stop the release of hostages. President Donald Trump then gave Hamas a deadline of 12pm on Saturday, February 15th, releasing the remaining hostages.
“If all Gaza hostages are not returned at 12pm on Saturday, we say we will cancel the ceasefire,” Trump said in his oval office. “Let me break all hell. Israel can disable it.”
Trump emphasized that Hamas needs to release “all of them, not drip or monotony.”
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Israeli security ministers supported the threat of President Trump, and in a statement, Prime Minister Netanyahu said in a statement that if the hostages are not released by deadlines, “we will resume fierce fighting until Hamas is decisively defeated.”
Hamas announced Thursday that it would release three more Israeli hostages, as originally planned, according to the Associated Press.
Greg Norman contributed to this report.
