After Hamas released a new clip of hostage Evyatar David on Saturday, the second hostage propaganda video in two days, the Foreign Ministry drew attention to the different muscle and fat composition on the arm of the terrorist captured in the video.
“Look at David’s arms – an Israeli hostage, starved to the edge of collapse,” the Foreign Ministry wrote on X/Twitter.
“Now, look at the arm of his Palestinian Hamas captor – strong, well-fed, offering out a can for show.”
“The Hamas propaganda unit made a mistake. In minute 02:31 of their disgusting video, a Hamas terrorist gives Evyatar a can of food. One can see that the terrorist’s arm is thicker than both Evyatar’s legs. The only people being starved in Gaza are the hostages,” a diplomatic source told The Jerusalem Post.
'Famine' in Gaza
Hamas said that David had been eating what the people of Gaza were eating, referencing the accusation that Israel had forced starvation on the Palestinian enclave.
Israel has long denied Hamas’s accusations, and the US recently announced that the Jewish state was matching a $30 million contribution to the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
This relates to senior Trump administration officials telling Congress this month that Israel agreed to match a US award of $30 million to the GHF, a previously unreported contribution to the private aid operation, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Aside from America’s contribution, which the US State Department announced in June, the sources behind the foundation’s funding have been opaque, as the GHF does not disclose its donors.
Hamas has said that the GHF aid sites have become massacre points in the Gaza Strip. Both this organization and Israeli officials have denied these allegations.
The US began backing the GHF as an alternative to the aid organizations that previously provided resources to the Gaza Strip, citing Hamas’s frequent looting of incoming aid provisions.
Reuters contributed to this report.