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🗓️ 5 August 2025
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0:00.0 | This weekend, Hamas released a haunting video of 24-year-old Eviatar David and Israeli hostage abducted from the Nova Music Festival during the October 7th terror attacks. |
0:11.0 | In the video, which is undated, David appears so emaciated and so pale, his own father said he didn't recognize him. |
0:18.0 | David was filmed by his Hamas captors as he was forced to dig his |
0:21.8 | own grave in a cramped underground tunnel. We are not showing the video since DeVeed's family says |
0:27.3 | he's the victim of a vile propaganda campaign. They're pleading for urgent international intervention. |
0:33.7 | His cousin, Matan Eshet, joins us now from Tel Aviv. Thank you for being with us, and I am deeply sorry for the pain and the anguish your family is enduring. |
0:44.0 | I read that your family believes that Eviatar only has a few days left to live in that condition. |
0:50.3 | Have you heard anything else about his health and conditions since the release of that video? |
0:56.0 | We have not heard anything new since the release of the video. |
1:01.0 | We only heard estimations being made by physicians and nutrition saying he looks like he lost more than 50% of his body weight, saying that he has but days to be saved. |
1:18.7 | Not talking about the condition that other postages who came back that were with him said that he already had more than 150 days ago. |
1:29.6 | He was shown with another hostage, 21-year-old, Ram Brozlovsky. |
1:34.4 | They appear, as we said, emaciated week. |
1:37.3 | They're begging for their lives, begging to be freed. |
1:40.9 | What went through your mind as you watched that video? |
1:48.2 | Um... What went through your mind as you watched that video? First of all, it was terror. |
1:50.4 | I was terrified to see my cousin like that. |
1:55.0 | He barely looks like my own cousin. |
1:58.3 | He doesn't even sound like him. |
2:00.6 | And I could see in his eyes the lust of hope and the fact that they actually managed |
2:09.0 | to break his spirit using this horrible terror tactics of starving him deliberately, of giving him no stimulate of having no son, |
2:23.4 | of having no hope of being survived. |
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