Israeli hostage family condemns ‘vile' Hamas video propaganda
The David family was reacting after Hamas' 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
They were among 44 festivalgoers seized. Palestinian militants killed 370.
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