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2025-08-02 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas issues propaganda video of hostage Evyatar David
[IsraelTimes] Clip comes a day after video of Rom Braslavski; ex-hostages and families of captives say they are ‘crushed’ by videos, call to end ‘repeated holocaust’

The Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
terror group on Friday published a new propaganda video of hostage Evyatar David, a day after Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
published a video of hostage Rom Braslavski.

The family did not approve its publication to the public, but the footage was shared by some on social media, leading David’s sister to criticize those who did so. At the same time, she said, "Those who have seen it now understand how serious it is and the physical condition Evyatar was in when, just 40 minutes ago, he gave me a million punches to the heart."

The son of US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, who has been leading the Trump administration’s efforts to free the hostages, noted David was "a bright, healthy young man" when he was taken captive but "after 665 days — starved and caged by Hamas — he is barely recognizable"

"Evyatar’s frail body and hollow eyes resemble the haunting images of Jews in Nazi concentration camps," Alex Witkoff wrote in a post on X. "Bring THEM home NOW."

David was taken captive by Hamas forces of Evil on October 7, 2023, from the Supernova desert rave, where Braslavski was also kidnapped.

Hamas published a video in February showing David and his best friend Guy Gilboa Dalal being forced to watch as other captives were freed and begging to be saved as well. That was the first time the two were seen since their abduction.

Israeli media do not air terror groups’ propaganda clips unless asked to by the families of the hostages.

Freed Islamic Jihad hostage Sasha Troufanov said he "cannot believe" the images of Braslavski since seeing him in captivity over a year ago.

"The faith and strength I saw in his eyes has been replaced by sorrow, depression and helplessness," said Troufanov. "I hope that all those who thought maybe we don’t need a deal and the most important thing is eliminating Hamas, even if at the expense of the hostages, sobers up and understands they must be brought back immediately."

Forty-nine hostages kidnapped during the October 7, 2023, attack, are still held captive in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
. At least 20 of the captives are thought to be alive. Hamas is also holding the body of a soldier who was killed in 2014.
Posted by trailing wife 2025-08-02 2025-08-02 00:41|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| ||Comments [58 views ]  Top
 File under: Hamas 

#1 This is for an audience in an honor shame culture.

Making an abused starving man dig his own grave is a display of his captors' strength and Israel's humiliating weakness, even though it countermands the propaganda campaign message targeting the West.

This behavior is not unprecedented.

The absence of Western civilization's outrage is.
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2025-08-02 15:39||   2025-08-02 15:39|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#2 Hamas is something human languages have not found a word for yet.
Posted by European Conservative 2025-08-02 15:48||   2025-08-02 15:48|| Front Page || Comments   Top

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