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Source: https://forward.com/opinion/761197/evyatar-david-hamas-video-hostage-israel-gaza/
In Hostage Video, Israelis Are Seeing Something that Americans Aren't
(Forward) Aviya Kushner - While many have seen the photo from the Hamas video of Israeli hostage Evyatar David, a young man who has been held hostage by Hamas since Oct. 7, 2023, looking weak and malnourished, they may not have seen the 5-minute video. The experience of watching the entire video cannot be emphasized enough. David looked obviously and intentionally starved, for a very long time, and he was barefoot in a hot tunnel, beyond weak, and digging his grave. In the video, he detailed on a makeshift calendar what he had eaten each day in the month. There were days when he received no food; sometimes two days went with no food. And what did he eat for the entire month? Lentils. That's it. "This is not fiction, this is real. There's no food," David says. This long video reminds everyone in Israel of the cruelty and brutality of Hamas. Which is well-fed. And muscular.