Hamas’s armed arm, Brigadas Al Qasama new video of the Israeli hostage spread this Saturday Evyatar Davidof whom he already published images on Friday showing his extreme thinness, in which he digs his own grave inside a tunnel in the Gaza Strip. “What I am digging is my own tomb”Says David, 24, while using a shovel against the earth inside the tunnel in the strip of just one meter wide. “Time is exhausted,” he adds.
At the end of the video the young man collapses on the shovel, after asking for a truce that allows him to return home with his family, after which the Islamist group shows the text: “Only a high fire agreement can bring you back alive“. In the images, David is seen writing on a calendar, on which he will then explain that he collects what he eats daily.
The young man mentions that he intersperses lentejas o judías From one day to another, and in between it comes between one and three days without eating, according to the video. The videos of the Palestinian militias in Gaza are usually scripted, according to other hostages that have left the enclave, which however have also reported how they have been deprived of food or suffered physical or psychological aggressions.
“This is for two days, to stay alive“, he says with a neutral gesture in the video David, while eat directly from a can of legumes. The young man also directs directly to the prime minister of Israel, Benjamín Netanyahu:” I feel that I have been abandoned. As Prime Minister of my Government You have to take care of me and the other prisoners“.
“He had heard that in Israel the government has to worry about the prisoners and by anyone imprisoned by the enemy. I feel that they have abandoned me. Everything I have learned and with what I have grown is a lie, “he regrets evying in the images, in reference to a usual value transmitted in Israel regarding not leaving anyone behind.
Three hostage videos in three days
It is the second video of Evyatar David that Al Qasam publishes in less than 24 hours, after on Friday afternoon the group spread another in which the young man does not speak, but with which he made his extreme thinness visible. In addition, on Thursday night, the Palestinian Islamic jihad published another video of the captive Rom Braslavskialso visibly malnourished and in which he did not stop crying asking the government to allow food to Gaza.
Hamás usually publish hostage videos, a tool Psychological pressure Towards Israel, in critical moments of negotiations on the high fire in Gaza. At this time they are stagnant and the United States envoy in the Middle East, Steve Witkoffis in the country to address the situation.
The images were also disseminated at a time when Gaza suffers a serious crisis by the famine caused by Israel, which has blocked the food ticket to Gaza for months. Between March 2 and May 19 the closure was total, while the aid flow is now very limited.
