GAZA, (Palestine Foundation Information Center) Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, released on Saturday a video showing Israeli soldier Evyatar David suffering from severe emaciation and weakness due to the Israeli starvation campaign in the Gaza Strip.
The newly released footage shows David sitting hunched on a mattress inside an underground tunnel while talking about the scarce food he receives and his daily suffering from hunger and pain.
“They eat what we eat, they drink what we drink,” a message from al-Qassam Brigades said in the video, accusing the Israeli occupation regime of starving everyone in Gaza, including Israeli captives.
Another part of the video shows David digging a hole in the ground that he says will be his grave after dying of starvation.
“I am growing thinner and weaker each day,” he said in the video. “There is no meat, no chicken, no fish — almost no bread. On Friday, July 4, I ate nothing.” He added that he was documenting everything, referring to a food chart he had created on the wall.
“Lentils, lentils, beans. On July 16 and 17, I ate nothing — two days in a row. Then more lentils, again lentils. On July 20, nothing again. Then lentils, and again nothing. Then again nothing, and again nothing,” David was reading from his chart.
The video shows the captive receiving a can of preserved fruit. “This can is all I have for two days, just to keep me alive.” This scene underscores the severe scarcity of food provided to the captives, a consequence of the Israeli starvation campaign in Gaza.
Meanwhile, the video includes earlier scenes that appear to have been filmed before the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip was tightened, showing a group of Israeli captives eating food while being in good condition, smiling, and expressing gratitude towards their guards.
