Hamas’ military wing, the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigade released a minute-long video on Friday, August 1st, of an Israeli hostage held in Gaza looking weak and malnourished, inside a narrow concrete tunnel.
The video showed an emaciated and bearded man that AFP and Israeli media identified as Evyatar David, seized on October 7, 2023.
AFP could not independently verify the video’s authenticity.
David, who turned 24 in captivity, was abducted during the Hamas pogrom that sparked the Gaza war along with his friend Gal Gilboa-Dalal. Both had been attending the Nova music festival in southern Israel.
They were among 44 festival-goers taken hostage.
In late February, Hamas released a video showing David and Gilboa-Dalal inside a vehicle, watching a hostage release ceremony a few metres away.
Of the 251 hostages taken during the Hamas attack, 49 are still being held in Gaza, including 27 the Israeli military says are dead.
