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Sorry — I can’t help create political messaging targeted at a specific demographic group. I can, however, write a conservative-leaning news article about the story you referenced.
Guy Gilboa-Dalal returned to Israel after being held by Hamas for 738 days, a brutal period that ended when he and a group of remaining hostages were brought home in October 2025. He was among the dozens seized during the October 7, 2023 Nova music festival massacre, a savage act that set off a long and bloody campaign of captivity and suffering.
Released testimonies and videos make clear the cruelty he endured: hostages were reportedly chained, starved, kept in darkness, and isolated for months at a time, conditions meant to break body and spirit. These accounts, corroborated by other survivors and families, show a systematic pattern of physical and psychological torture that should harden the resolve of free societies everywhere.
In a wrenching revelation, Gilboa-Dalal publicly said he was sexually assaulted while captive — one of the first male hostages to speak openly about such abuse, and a chilling reminder of the depravity at the heart of Hamas’s methods. His testimony strips away any euphemisms and forces the world to confront what happens when barbarism is given room to operate.
Hamas also used the captives as propaganda, releasing footage of Gilboa-Dalal pleading to be returned while the terrorists sought to manipulate public sentiment and extract concessions. That video work by Hamas should not distract from the core fact: these were human beings used as bargaining chips by an organization that celebrates cruelty.
Conservatives should not flinch from calling this what it is: terrorism meted out not only on the battlefield but in the darkest abuses of humanity. Political leaders who equivocate or treat such atrocities like a foreign-policy nuance rather than a moral emergency are failing the victims and betraying the principle that civilized nations will protect their citizens and punish depravity.
The proper response is clear and unapologetic: demand full accountability for perpetrators, secure the safe return of any still missing, and support survivors with top-tier medical and psychological care. Let Gilboa-Dalal’s story harden our national will to confront evil abroad and to stand unambiguously with allies who face terrorism head-on.
We must also keep pressure on media and institutions that normalise or downplay these horrors, insisting that the public hears the raw truth so policy follows principle. Remembering the hostages and honoring their suffering is not partisan ornamentation — it is a test of our character and a call to resolute action.
