02-08-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Israeli hostage family condemns ‘vile' Hamas video propaganda
The family of an Israeli hostage held in Gaza for almost 22 months accused Hamas on Saturday of tormenting him with hunger as part of a propaganda campaign.
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.
