Gruesome video shows ‘Living Skeleton’ Hamas hostage

The devastating images of David have drawn a heartbreaking explanation from his family, who released the video for maximum impact. They said, “We are forced to witness our beloved son and brother, Evyatar David, intentionally and cynically starving in Hamas’s tunnels in Gaza – a living skeleton, buried alive.”

The words of the family reflect the horror of their situation: “The intentional hunger of our son as part of a propaganda campaign is one of the most horrible acts that the world has seen.”

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the video and stated: “Hamas terrorists deliberately starving our hostages and documented them in a cynical, humiliating and malignant way.”

Survivor of the Holocaust Naftali Fürst expressed her fear of visual torment in a powerful reflection.

“I survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald. I know hunger up close … I remember humiliation – the full strips of human dignity. I know the fear, the fear,” she said, pulling a scorching parallels between her past and David’s current state.