The terrorist group Hamas released on Saturday (2) a video of the Israeli hostage Evyatar David, in which he digs his own pit inside a tunnel in the Gaza Strip. The terrorists had already released photos of Evyatar last Friday, whose images drew attention for their extreme thinness.
“What I’m digging is my own grave,” says David, 24, while using a shovel against the earth inside a tunnel of just a meter wide in the track. “Time is running out,” he says.
At the end of the video, the young man collapses on his shovel after asking for a truce that allows him to go home, and the terrorist group shows the text: “Just a ceasefire agreement can bring them back alive.”
In the images, David is seen writing in a calendar, which he explains that he records what he eats daily. The young man mentions that he intersperses lentils or beans overnight and, in the middle, goes through one to three days without eating.
The videos produced by Gaza terrorists are scripted, according to other hostages that came out of the enclave, which, however, also reported how they were deprived of food and suffered physical or psychological aggression.
“This is for two days, to keep me alive,” says David, with a neutral countenance in the video while eating directly from a can of vegetables.
The young man also goes directly to Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “I feel I was abandoned. As my government prime minister, you have to take care of me and other prisoners.”
“I had heard that in Israel the government has to worry about prisoners and anyone detained by the enemy. I feel that they have left me. All I learned and what I grew up is a lie,” says Evyatar.
Three hostage videos in three days
This is Evyatar David’s second video that Hamas publishes in less than 24 hours. Yesterday afternoon, the terrorists released another video in which the young man appeared but did not speak. He caught his attention his extreme thinness.
In addition, on Thursday night, Palestine Islamic Jihad published another video of the Rom Braslavski hostage, also visibly malnourished, in which he kept crying by asking the government to allow food to enter Gaza.
Hamas usually publishes hostage videos, and uses this tool to exert psychological pressure on Israel, especially at critical moments of negotiations about the ceasefire in Gaza. At this moment, conversations about respite are stagnant, and the US envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff is in the country to address the situation.
The images were also released at a time when countries and NGOs report that Israel is promoting hunger in Gaza.
