Hamas Releases Video of Emaciated Hostage Digging His Own Grave After 666 Days of Hell [WATCH]

The family of Evyatar David, a 24-year-old Israeli held hostage by Hamas, issued a dire warning on Saturday, stating he has only “a few days left to live,” as negotiations for the release of the remaining captives remain stalled.

Their statement follows the release of a new video by Hamas showing David in a Gaza tunnel, appearing extremely malnourished and visibly frail.

Hamas has released a new, horrifying video showing hostage Evyatar David forced to dig his own grave.

Where is the global outrage? pic.twitter.com/3MmnkaYhId

— Vivid. (@VividProwess) August 2, 2025

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In the footage released Friday night, David is seen standing in a cramped tunnel, marking days on a calendar and digging what he believes could be his own grave.

“I haven’t eaten for a few days in a row,” he says in the video.

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At one point, someone behind the camera hands him a can of beans.

“This can is for two days,” David says.

“This whole can is for two days so that I don’t die. This is the grave I think I’m going to be buried in. Time is running out.”

Hamas forced hostage Evyatar David to dig his own grave for a propaganda video, after torturing and starving him for 666 days of hell.

He’s barely alive, a skeleton barely.

Hamas has no right to exist.

https://t.co/FinojLBgCT

— Vivid. (@VividProwess) August 2, 2025

David was kidnapped during the Oct. 7 attack at the Nova music festival in southern Israel, where Hamas terrorists took more than 200 hostages into Gaza.

He is among the approximately 20 hostages still believed to be alive.

Following the release of the video, David’s family issued a statement through the Hostages Families Forum Headquarters: “We are forced to witness our beloved son and brother, Evyatar David, deliberately and cynically starved in Hamas’s tunnels in Gaza — a living skeleton, buried alive. The deliberate starvation of our son as part of a propaganda campaign is one of the most horrifying acts the world has seen.”

Statement from the David Family:

We are forced to witness our beloved son and brother, Evyatar David, deliberately and cynically starved in Hamas’s tunnels in Gaza – a living skeleton, buried alive.

Our son has only a few days left to live in his current condition.
Hamas is… pic.twitter.com/DyXHdB3k8O

— MichaelRapaport (@MichaelRapaport) August 2, 2025

This marks the second video of a hostage released by Hamas in the same week.

On Thursday, Hamas published footage of another Israeli hostage, Rom Braslavski, appearing gaunt and emotional.

He, like David, was abducted at the same music festival.

May God cradle his shattered family in Israel with strength and mercy. This isn’t just heartbreaking; it is a crime against everything decent left in this world. A hostage in Gaza, tortured and starved by Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists, was filmed in agony. If you can watch… pic.twitter.com/ZjqAImC2vS

— Amjad Taha أمجد طه (@amjadt25) July 31, 2025

At a weekly protest held in Tel Aviv on Saturday calling for the release of the hostages, Ilay David, Evyatar’s brother, addressed the crowd. “They are on the absolute brink of death,” he said.

Speaking in English, Ilay made a direct appeal to President Donald Trump: “We call on President Trump to secure the release of the hostages by any means necessary. To remain silent now is to be complicit in their slow agonizing death.”

Earlier in the day, U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff met with the families of the hostages in Tel Aviv.

According to Hebrew media, Witkoff told the families that there was no breakthrough in the negotiations with Hamas.

“I hear your frustration. But the situation is complicated. There are many reasons that I cannot detail,” he said.

Witkoff stated that an end to the war was “very close,” according to a statement released by the Hostages Families Forum Headquarters.

“We have a plan to … bring everyone home,” Witkoff said, emphasizing that the U.S. was pushing for a comprehensive deal.

“No piecemeal deals,” he added.

“That doesn’t work. We’ve tried everything.”

In response, Hamas issued a statement denying it had agreed to lay down arms.

The terror group reiterated its stance that it would not disarm “as long as the occupation exists” and until there is a fully sovereign Palestinian state.

Negotiations remain deadlocked as hostages continue to be held in undisclosed locations across the Gaza Strip.

The Hostages Families Forum continues to organize weekly rallies demanding government and international intervention.

Family members say time is running out.

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