OtherThe brother of an Israeli hostage held in the Gaza Strip has told the BBC that a Hamas is showing the video to be reduced and weak, “a new form of cruelty” that has shattered his parents.
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David’s brother Ilaya said in an interview on Monday, “He is a human skeleton. He was hungry at the point where he can die at any moment, and he can be very big. He can barely speak, he can barely move forward.”
The families of the hostages have urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to prioritize their release as reports show that they are planning to expand the military campaign.
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“I did not eat for days … I barely got drinking water,” David, 24, says. He is seen digging what he says.
His brother said that his father had barely recognized his son’s voice on the video and could not sleep. She said that her mother kept crying all day.
“Looking at those images of my brother as a human skeleton, we understood that this is, it is a new kind of cruelty,” said Mr. David. “This is the lowest you can get.”
He called the world leaders to unite them and other hostages to protect them from “Hamas’s cruel, twisted hands”.
“So we have to focus on conveying the message, which is, dying, we need to give him medicine, to give him food, proper food, and you need to get this treatment now, or will die.”
Hamas’s armed wing deliberately stared at the prisoners and said, the hostage said what people people eat in their fighters and Gaza.
After the hostage videos were released, Netanyahu spoke with his families, told them that the attempt to return all the hostages would “continue and continuously”.
But an Israeli officer – widely quoted by local media – Netanyahu was working to free the hostages through “Hamas’s military necklace”.
The possibility of a new growth in Gaza may carry forward Israeli colleagues who are insisting on the immediate ceasefire as the news of Palestinians dying of starvation or malnutrition causes a shock worldwide.
The main group supporting the families of the hostages condemned the idea of a new military aggressive, saying: “Netanyahu is leading Israel and hostages to doom.”
The scene was made in a letter in a letter sent by about 600 retired Israeli security officers to US President Donald Trump, in which he urged to pressurize Israel to immediately end the war in Gaza.
“Your credibility with the vast majority of Israel enhances your ability to run the Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu and his government in the right direction: end the war, return the hostages, stop the sorrow, “he wrote.
The group included former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo, Ami Ayalon, former head of Shin Bet – Israel’s domestic secret service agency – former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and former Defense Minister Moshe Yalone.
“It is our professional decision that Hamas is no longer a strategic threat to Israel,” he said.
“Earlier this war was just a war, a defensive war, but when we achieved all military objectives, this war just stopped the war,” Ayalon said.
Former top leaders headed commanders for Israel’s security (CIS) group, which in the past urged the government to focus on achieving the return of hostages.
“Stop the Gaza war! On behalf of CIS, former IDF generals of Israel and Mossad, Shin Bet, Police, and the largest group of diplomatic core counterparts, we urge you to end the Gaza war. You did it in Lebanon. The time to do so in Gaza.”
OtherIsrael launched a disastrous war in Gaza after Hamas’s October 7 attack, killing around 1,200 people and 251 was taken as hostages in Gaza.
Hamas -run Health Ministry says that more than 60,000 people have been killed as a result of Israel’s military operation in Gaza.
On Monday, the ministry said that at least 94 people were killed in Gaza on the previous day, stating that the Israeli attacks were said.
The region is also experiencing massive decrease as a result of heavy restrictions imposed by Israel, which is allowed in Gaza. The ministry says that 180 people, including 93 children, have died of malnutrition since the war started.
Such reports have almost become daily in recent months, but it is difficult to verify as international journalists including BBCs, blocking Israel from entering Gaza.
Un-supported agencies have said that “the worst situation of famine in Gaza is currently playing”.
The region is also experiencing massive decrease as a result of heavy restrictions imposed by Israel, which is allowed in Gaza. The ministry says that 180 people, including 93 children, have died of malnutrition since the war started.
