Hamas releases chilling video of ‘living skeleton' hostage Evyatar David : ‘Few days left to live'
In a new propaganda video released by the terror group, David, 24, is seen in a tunnel with a ceiling roughly as high as he is tall, crossing off dates on a calendar and digging what he says he fears is his own grave.
'I haven't eaten for a few days in a row,' David says in the footage.
The video shows David digging inside a tunnel.
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David's family believe he just has a few days left to live.
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In the middle of the video, the person behind the camera hands him a can of beans.
'This can is for two days. This whole can is for two days so that I don't die,' David says.
'This is the grave I think I'm going to be buried in,' he goes on. 'Time is running out. You are the only ones who can end this,' David said in the propaganda video aimed at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
before being interspliced with clips of starving Palestinian children.
'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 David family said in a statement sent to the Hostages Families Forum Headquarters.
'The deliberate starvation of our son as part of a propaganda campaign is one of the most horrifying acts the world has seen.'
This is the second hostage video released by the terror group this week. On Thursday, chilling footage showed Israeli hostage Rom Braslavski ghostly and frail as he cried during the six-minute video.
Both were kidnapped during a music festival during the October 7 terror attack and are among the remaining 20 hostages believed to still be alive.
'They are on the absolute brink of death,' brother Ilay David said Saturday, speaking in English before a crowd of thousands at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, as thousands of protesters gathered for their weekly demonstrations to call for the release of the hostages.
David called on President Trump to bring about the hostages' release 'by any means necessary.'
'To remain silent now is to be complicit in their slow agonizing death,' he said.
US special envoy Steve Witkoff, meanwhile, told Israeli hostages' families in a meeting in Tel Aviv Saturday, that he had no news of progress in talks with Hamas, according to Hebrew media.
'I hear your frustration. But the situation is complicated. There are many reasons [for this] that I cannot detail,' Witkoff said, also emphasizing to the families that President Trump's mission is to bring everyone home.
'We now need to bring all of them home. We are very close to ending the war,' he said, according to the statement. 'We have a plan to end the war and bring everyone home.'
'No piecemeal deals,' Witkoff said. 'That doesn't work. And we've tried everything.'
a comprehensive Gaza ceasefire-hostage agreement and would no longer seek 'piecemeal deals,'and is opposed to expanding the fighting in Gaza. The effort was complicated, he said, but he believed it would ultimately succeed.
The terror group later vowed not to disarm 'as long as the occupation exists' and until there is a fully sovereign Palestinian state.
Israel could announce a plan to annex parts of the Gaza Strip to pressure Hamas to accept a cease-fire deal, according to a cabinet minister.
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