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Hamas Releases Gruesome Propaganda Video of Starving Israeli Hostage Digging His Own Grave
Townhall ^ | 08/02/2025 | Sarah Arnold

Posted on 08/03/2025 8:25:56 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

In a chilling and grotesque act of psychological warfare, Hamas released a disturbing video showing Israeli hostage Evyatar David—visibly emaciated and barely able to stand—being forced to dig what appears to be his own grave in a tunnel beneath Gaza. The 24-year-old hostage is seen crossing off days on a calendar, holding a nearly empty can of beans, and stating he hasn’t eaten in days. “This can is for two days… so that I don’t die,” he says. “This is the grave I think I’m going to be buried in. Time is running out.”

The nearly five-minute video, released Friday, is part of a calculated propaganda campaign by Hamas meant to terrorize the Israeli public and pressure the Netanyahu government into making concessions. It comes amid stalled negotiations between Israel and the Iranian-backed terror groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, who continue to hold Israeli civilians hostage while making outrageous demands.

The David family, who permitted the release of the footage, issued a heart-wrenching statement via the Hostages Families Forum Headquarters:

“We are forced to witness our beloved son and brother, Evyatar David, deliberately and cynically starved in Hamas’s tunnels in Gaza — a living skeleton, buried alive. 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 wrote.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the footage, stating:

“Hamas terrorists deliberately starve our hostages, documenting them in a cynical, humiliating, and malicious manner," Netanyahu said.

This latest video lays bare the depravity of Hamas, revealing once again that the terror group has no regard for human life—Israeli or Palestinian. By showcasing such horrific abuse, Hamas is not only committing war crimes but also revealing the depths to which it will sink in its campaign of terror and manipulation.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Gaza; Hamas; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hostage; israel; mamdani; terrorism
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1 posted on 08/03/2025 8:25:56 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

BiBi needs to Finish this Mess Himself!


2 posted on 08/03/2025 8:30:44 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: SeekAndFind
The nearly five-minute video, released Friday, is part of a calculated propaganda campaign by Hamas meant to terrorize the Israeli public and pressure the Netanyahu government into making concessions.

There is no more effective way to make the case to continue the fight with Hamas than for them to showcase their own barbarism.
3 posted on 08/03/2025 8:32:09 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: Big Red Badger
BiBi needs to Finish this Mess Himself!

I am all for the strikes to decimate Hamas, but I am not sure what constitutes "finishing" for Bibi. Wars in Iran, Syria and Lebanon, etc. will not finish anything.
4 posted on 08/03/2025 8:34:00 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: SeekAndFind

Bastards! While using that sort of invective goes against my faith and my values, there’s nothing else I an say that says how I see this. May God’s wrath be upon them.


5 posted on 08/03/2025 8:36:23 PM PDT by Spacetrucker
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To: SeekAndFind
Hamas needs to be wiped off the face of the earth. If they take a substantial amount of Gaza with them in the process, well - that would be a shame.
6 posted on 08/03/2025 8:39:25 PM PDT by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Greta is not going to want to see it.


7 posted on 08/03/2025 8:40:29 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: SeekAndFind

Squish these cockroaches.


8 posted on 08/03/2025 8:44:13 PM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Even if this young man is killed before he is rescued, it’s doubtful that they would use the interior of that cave as his burial site, for one thing, that dirt looked very hard and dry.

This poor fellow is in no condition to dig a hole big enough for a rabbit, let alone the ghoulish speculation that the hole may be for himself. This is yet another tactic of Mind Games and Torture, to further wear a prisoner down, without beating them, at least without beating them while on camera.
Praying for his rescue.


9 posted on 08/03/2025 8:44:22 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: SeekAndFind

This is the only real starvation in Gaza


10 posted on 08/03/2025 8:48:00 PM PDT by KingofZion
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To: Huskrrrr

Into dust.


11 posted on 08/03/2025 8:50:49 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hamas can’t even get their propaganda right. They’re trying to focus world attention on how the Israelis are supposedly starving Gazan civilians, then they release this and essentially admit that they’re doing what they’re accusing the Israelis of doing.

But then again, they know their target audience has no problem with hypocrisy so they don’t need to be concerned with it themselves.


12 posted on 08/03/2025 8:56:54 PM PDT by mbrfl
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To: SeekAndFind

Well it appears to be working for him since Oct 7 I guess they are just gaining support and allies? SMH


13 posted on 08/03/2025 9:07:12 PM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: rdcbn1
” that would be a shame.”

hmmmm .... well .... sort of ...maybe ... or not

There may be a few left in gaze that don't bear the blood of the innocent. A few...

Very few.

When wolves attack my sheep ..I don't leave the cubs.. I don't try to determine which ones killed and which ones ate.
If I have to shoot through a lamb to hit a wolf... I pull the trigger.
This is not war .. this is an uncivilized barbaric ideology seeking to impose its violent demonic cult on the world.

If an ember is left ... the wind will pick it up.

14 posted on 08/03/2025 9:09:51 PM PDT by 1of10 (be vigilant , be strong, be safe, be 1 of 10 .)
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To: SeekAndFind

Snag the hamas leadership kids and wives...video how plump they are and how whiny they trigger when their electronics are snatched away before the cameras.


15 posted on 08/03/2025 9:15:15 PM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: Dr. Sivana

Finish It.
.
Beats me FRiend.
Pave it over.
Turn it to Glass.
Turn it into a Resort as Trump Wished.
What does BiBi want?——?
I didn’t Brake it....
but Hamas should be
FINISHED.


16 posted on 08/03/2025 9:33:51 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Iran
Syria
Lebanon——
BiBi has been All over but the
Stinking Hamas still runs GAZA!?
.
WHY?


17 posted on 08/03/2025 9:36:32 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Why Cotinue the Fight???
.
You’re words won’t fix It?


18 posted on 08/03/2025 9:42:04 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: SeekAndFind

The propaganda will enrage good people. Not good to show what the Hamas terrorists do to hostages.

The ongoing BS about two terribly unfortunate children with genetic disorders falsely set up as being everyday examples of people starving due to Israel blocking food to them has caused big sympathy on NYT, ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN and MSNBC. As someone said, if the children are starving and being held by sobbing well fed women, then why didn’t the women sacrifice some of their meals to help the children?

Although large numbers of pounds of food and medicine shipped by Israel was intercepted by Hamas and re-sold at up to 10 times the cost to make a price gouging profit.


19 posted on 08/03/2025 9:59:26 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: SeekAndFind

The Arab colleagues the WWII Nazis used to force concentration camp prisoners to dig large open pits and then shot them to fall into them as mass graves.

Michael Savage said in God, Faith and Reason that Jews would be chanting prayers just before they were slaughtered. Depressing.


20 posted on 08/03/2025 10:02:13 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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