As newly released videos of emaciated hostages provoke outrage in Israel, Eli David says he believes that his brother, who has been held captive in Gaza since October 7, is being intentionally starved by Hamas.

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Newly released videos of Israeli hostages held in Gaza have shown the severe physical decline of those still in captivity. The families of hostages, including Eviatar Devy and Ron Braslavsky, approved the release of these images in hopes of drawing attention to their plight and urging action.

The footage has provoked outrage in Israel and prompted calls for renewed negotiations with Hamas. Hostage families are appealing for increased international pressure on Hamas, emphasizing that the suffering extends to both the hostages and the people of Gaza. The videos depict the hostages as emaciated and in distress, with their relatives expressing deep concern for their survival.

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The fragile figure of Eviatar Devy, one of the surviving Israeli hostages still being held in Gaza, now 24 years old and just skin and bone. I haven't eaten for days, he says, in this latest Hamas propaganda video crouched in a tunnel. It's not enough food and barely enough water, look how thin I've become, he says. And this here is your brother, right here, there's two photos of him. Yes. Family members have approved use of the images released at the weekend, but his brother Eli told me he could only bear to watch a few solitary frames. Eviatar was a young healthy man before he was abducted, even a bit chubby, and now he looks like a skeleton, a human skeleton, buried alive, that's how he looks, and I don't exaggerate. Do you think he's being starved because there is a shortage of food in Gaza, or do you think he's being starved intentionally by his captors? I'm sure he's intentionally, cynically being starved by his captors. We know that his captors have plenty of food, they haven't lost a pound, and they are doing the same to their own people, to the people of Gaza, they are starving them, although they have food. On Israeli television, the newly released videos of emaciated hostages held captive since October the 7th, 2023, are provoking outrage, amid calls for negotiations with Hamas to quickly restart, very quickly. This is 22-year-old Ron Braslavsky, another Israeli hostage shown writhing in pain in his Gaza prison. There's barely anything to eat, I can't sleep, I can't live, he sobs. His own mother, who approved the release of these latest horrifying images, say her son's weak voice sounds like he's accepted he may never come out alive. And now, hostage families are calling for renewed international pressure on Hamas, not just Israel, for the agony in Gaza to end. If they want the people of Gaza to starve, they'll do it, and they are the ones to blame, and we cannot blame only Israel for that. Hamas is holding all of us hostages right now, all of us, the people of Gaza as well, and they need to be out of the picture. What I'm doing now is digging my own grave, says Eviatar David, as he scrapes at the dirt in his cramped tunnel. Every day, my body becomes weaker and weaker, he says, and time is running out.

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