(NewsNation) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly shifting towards a full navy occupation of the Gaza Strip, along with his safety Cupboard anticipated to satisfy on Tuesday to make a proper choice.
Ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas have stalled for months, leaving at the very least 20 dwelling hostages struggling in limbo awaiting rescue.
A kind of hostages is Evyatar David. David’s cousin, Matan Eshet, appeared on “Elizabeth Vargas Reviews” after his household noticed him in a video this weekend for the primary time since March, digging his personal grave.
“It’s nothing you might ever image,” stated Eshet. “It’s images that we acknowledge from the darkish days of the Nineteen Forties.
“Even in our worst goals, we are able to’t think about him wanting like that, being so skinny, being so pale with out his signature smile or mild in his eyes. I didn’t think about seeing my cousin so damaged.”
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David was one of many over 200 individuals kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, on the Nova Music pageant in Israel. Within the video, David is severely malnourished and practically unrecognizable, having spent 668 days in captivity.
David says within the video, “That is the grave I believe I’m going to be buried in. Time is working out.”
“It offers us horrible flashbacks, to issues we thought we have been solely going to see in footage,” Eshet stated. “It’s laborious. I really feel like I’m seeing my cousin dying in entrance of my eyes on this video.”
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This screengrab from a video launched on August 1, 2025 by the armed wing of Palestinian militant group Hamas, exhibits Israeli hostage Evyatar David in a tunnel. David, who turned 24 in captivity, was kidnapped in the course of the Hamas assault on October 7, 2023. (Picture by Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades / AFP)
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Households of hostages collect in Tel Aviv, Israel, on August 2, 2025, and watch a newly launched video by Hamas displaying Evyatar David, an Israeli hostage, in a severely malnourished situation. (Picture by ORI AVIRAM/Center East Photos/AFP by way of Getty Photos)
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This screengrab from a video launched on August 1, 2025 by the armed wing of Palestinian militant group Hamas, exhibits Israeli hostage Evyatar David in a tunnel. David, who turned 24 in captivity, was kidnapped in the course of the Hamas assault on October 7, 2023. (Picture by Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades / AFP)
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Israeli President Isaac Herzog holds a photograph of David wanting weak and malnourished, throughout a press convention with Lithuania’s President (not in image) on the presidential palace in Vilnius, Lithuania on August 4, 2025. (Picture by PETRAS MALUKAS/AFP by way of Getty Photos)
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Galya David (L) and Ilay Yosef David (R), mom and brother, sit subsequent to a portrait of 22-year-old Evyatar David, held hostage by Palestinian Hamas militants in the course of the October 7 assault, as they attend a press convention in Athens on November 6, 2023. (Picture by ANGELOS TZORTZINIS/AFP by way of Getty Photos)
David’s brother and father imagine he’s being starved and buried alive as a part of a propaganda marketing campaign. Some members of the family couldn’t even acknowledge his voice once they first noticed the video.
“I believe everybody can see that the best way he appears like, you see that it is a dying particular person,” stated Eshet. “Simply within the glimpse and second when the terrorist give him the canned meals. You may see the distinction within the terrorist’s arm in comparison with Evyatar’s arm.”
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Outrage has grown amongst Israelis after the video of David was launched. David’s father is asking Netanyahu to do no matter is feasible to deliver the remaining hostages residence.
“We normally say the second he does sufficient is the second they’ll be right here. And if they aren’t right here but, he hasn’t achieved sufficient to verify they arrive again,” Eshet stated.
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