Ruard in Israel: kidnapping videos burden Netanyahu's government
Ruard in Israel: kidnapping videos burden Netanyahu's government
"What I do now is to shovel my own grave," says Evyatar David, while his fragile figure, weakened by hunger, digs with a shovel in the narrow tunnel Gaza. "Every day my body becomes weaker and weaker," adds the 24-year-old hostage-taker, "and time is running out." This is just one of the frightening scenes in the Latest Geiselvideos published by Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic jihad can be seen. These videos show two of the surviving Israeli hostages that were kidnapped on October 7, 2023 and are rapidly broken down in captivity.
background of the hostage -taking
The broadcast of the disturbing images by Israeli and international media was approved by the traumatized families of the hostages, which CNN announced that they wanted the suffering of their relatives to be visible. "Evyatar was a young, healthy man before he was kidnapped, even a little corpulent. Now he looks alive like a skeleton, a human skeleton," said the prisoner's brother, Ilay David, in Tel Aviv.
The condition of the hostages
The condition of Rome Braslavski, who is only 22 years old, seems even more desperate. In a video published by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Group, you can see his starved body, which lies painfully on the ground of an improvised prison in Gaza while he is crying around relief. "My foot does not look good and I can't go to the toilet. I went out of food and water. I can't sleep, I can't live," he sobs.
Humanitarian crisis in Gaza
his own mother says that her son's weak voice gives the impression that he has accepted that he may never come out alive. These videos appear in the middle of a stricter hunger crisis in Gaza. A nutritional security agency supported by the UN warned this week that the "worst-scenario of a famine" in the area. Health authorities in Gaza report that a further 13 people died of malnutrition at the weekend, including a child, which increases the total number of fatalities by hunger since the beginning of the 2023 conflict.
pressure on the Israeli government
This state increases the pressure on the Israeli government, which is already confronted with growing international isolation due to the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza. There are renewed demands to free the remaining 50 hostages from Gaza as soon as possible. As can be achieved best, one is one of the central questions that split Israeli public opinion.
political views and strategies
"The horror videos of Hamas pursue a goal - to increase the pressure on the state of Israel," said ITMAR Ben Gvir, a radical politician of the right, during a controversial visit at the weekend. "A message has to be sent here: conquering the entire Gaza Strip, explaining sovereignty over all of Gaza, eliminating every member of Hamas and promoting voluntary emigration. This is the only way to bring the hostages back and win the war," added Ben Gvir.
The way forward
his demands to intensify the military activities in Gaza and to drive the local Palestinian population in fact, may be dismissed as the chatter of a margin extreme. But Ben Gvir is a high -ranking minister in the Israeli government and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is dependent on him and other hardliners of the Jewish nationalists who are against all kinds of agreement with Hamas to keep his fragile government coalition.
public reaction to the hostage -taking
According to reports from Israeli media, Netanyahu could actually tend to expand the military operations in Gaza. In the past, many Israelis, including many hostage families, have accused Netanyahu of intentionally extending the conflict in Gaza in order to preserve his government coalition and accused him of basically sacrificing their relatives in order to stay in power. But the latest hostage videos that have embraced prisoners showing shock and outrage all over Israel.urgency and appeals
With hostage families who are convinced that the time for their relatives is going, the pressure on the Israeli government grows to come to Hamas before rescue or return to Hamas before it is too late.
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