hebrew → English transcript

I am Gai Gilboa Dalal, the wealthy man held captive by the Yalgassem battalions in the city of Gaza.

Today is Thursday, the 28th of August, 2025.

I can't believe I'm alive after 22 months of captivity — hard, very, very hard.

It's so hard here, hard — no food, no gas, no water, no electricity.

I, one of the wealthy, and more than two million residents of Gaza.

Every day, every day we go through these hardships.

Thank you very much, thank you very much, Mr. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,

for finally giving us bread, some cheese, and Indomie.

Thank you very much for finally giving us a little energy to live.

while your son is in Beimi barbecuing.

I've heard, I've heard they're going to attack the city of Gaza and I'm terrified by that idea.

What does that mean? It means we're going to die here.

We won't move out of the city of Gaza; that's what they told the Yalgassem men.

We'll stay here and no matter where the army goes, we'll be there — the wealthy will die because of it.

And that means only one thing: it means that I and more than eight of my friends,

Eight Israeli citizens are going to die here.

I'm just terrified, terrified of this idea, I'm hysterical.

It's just a nightmare, it's just a nightmare, and it's all because of the government.

They don't care, they don't care that soldiers are dying here and they don't care that wealthy people are dying here.

And this is our last chance to survive, please keep protesting, protest a lot, protest strongly.

Please stop this madness, stop this war already, please.

I'm begging, I'm begging, please, please.

This is our last chance to survive, our last chance.

Please do everything, do everything, go out, protest, make a mess, cause problems for the government because it wants to keep us here.

Omer, Tal, you were with me and with Evyatar, speak for us, Evyatar and I are still here.

Please, speak, speak, go out to protest, go to the media, don't give in to their assault.

The Red Cross is here, the Red Cross is seated here in Gaza City.

This is happening, man — I can't believe I'm seeing you. Bro, I can't believe I'm seeing you; I swear I can't believe I'm seeing you.

This is just insane; it's totally unreal.

I thought I was being held by Hamas, but the truth is I'm being held by our government.

I'm being held by Benjamin Netanyahu; I'm being held by Ben-Gvir and Smotrich.

They lie all the time; they don't want us to come back home.

I'm in Gaza City; there are explosions here, there is shooting here, there are helicopters here.

That's all we want — we just want this to end.

We want to return to our families.

We're near the army; we're scared — there are explosions here, there is shooting here.

Please, bring us back.