Israeli hostage family condemns 'vile' Hamas video propaganda

Channel News Asia ^ | 03 Aug 2025

[nickcarraway]

The David family was reacting after Hamas's armed wing released a video of 24-year-old Evyatar David, looking emaciated and weak. Israeli restrictions on the entry of goods and aid into Gaza have led to severe shortages of food and other essentials.

The family of an Israeli hostage held in Gaza for almost 22 months accused Hamas on Saturday (Aug 2) of tormenting him with hunger as part of a propaganda campaign. The David family was reacting after Hamas's armed wing released a video of 24-year-old Evyatar David, looking emaciated and weak in a narrow concrete tunnel, for the second night in a row.

"Hamas is using our son as a live experiment in a vile hunger campaign. The deliberate starvation of our son as part of a propaganda campaign is one of the most horrifying acts the world has seen," the family said in a statement.

David was abducted during the Hamas attack that sparked the Gaza war along with his friend Gal Gilboa-Dalal. Both had been attending the Nova music festival in southern Israel.

[muglywump]

So, there actually is starvation in Gaza.

[Words Matter]

The intentional starvation is by Hamas. But red is no shortage of food . As the health ministry prevents from reaching.

[Words Matter]

A living skeleton in Gaza: This is what hunger really looks like Hamas knows exactly what it is doing. Starvation is a bargaining chip; the emaciated hostage is a living press release.


A screengrab from a Hamas propaganda video with Israeli hostage Evyatar David. A screengrab from a Hamas propaganda video with Israeli hostage Evyatar David. (photo credit: Screenshot/x, section 27a copyright act)
Zvika klein, August 2, 2025
The newest Hamas “sign-of-life” video runs one minute fifty-eight seconds. Long enough to watch 24-year-old Evyatar David – once a lanky kite-surfer from Kfar Saba – stand shirtless in a Gaza tunnel, bones jutting under parchment skin, and whisper that he has been ordered to dig his own grave.

A makeshift calendar hangs on the tunnel wall; he crosses out squares that read ein ochel – “no food.” Every square is another day of calculated starvation.

[Words Matter]

Well-fed sadistic genocidal Islamofascistic racist Arab "Palestine" Hamas 'Gaza Health Ministry' starving Jewish hostages.
See the butcher's hand handling Evyatar David looking like a living skeleton.

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[Words Matter]

[fruser1]

Don't forget the children of Gaza /s