Geoff Bennett:
This weekend, Hamas released a haunting video of 24-year-old Evyatar David, an Israeli hostage abducted from the Nova Music Festival during the October 7 terror attacks.
In the video, which is undated, David appears so emaciated and so pale, his own father said he didn’t recognize him. David was filmed by his Hamas captors as he was forced to dig his own grave in a cramped underground tunnel. We are not showing the video since David’s family says he’s the victim of a vile propaganda campaign. They’re pleading for urgent international intervention.
His cousin, Matan Eshet, joins us now from Tel Aviv.
Thank you for being with us. And I am deeply sorry for the pain and the anguish your family is enduring.
I read that your family believes that Evyatar only has a few days left to live in that condition. Have you heard anything else about his health and condition since the release of that video?
Matan Eshet, Cousin of Evyatar David: We have not heard anything new since the release of the video.
We only heard estimations being made by physicians and nutritionists saying he looks like he lost more than 50 percent of his body weight, saying that he has more days to be saved, not talking about the condition that other hostages who came back that were with him said that he already had more than 150 days ago.
