Brother of hostage Evyatar David accuses Hamas of using captives as ‘live hunger experiments’

Ilay David, brother of hostage Evyatar David, accuses Hamas of using his younger brother and the other captives as “live hunger experiments” after the terror group released footage of Evyatar looking severely emaciated.

Speaking in English before a crowd of thousands at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, Ilay demands that the humanitarian aid “meant to alleviate suffering” in the Strip also reach Evyatar and the other hostages.

Ilay describes himself as “a brother and a son whose heart is being torn apart watching helplessly, as my younger brother Evyatar David and his fellow hostage Guy Gilboa-Dalal slip away. They are on the absolute brink of death.”

“In their current unimaginable condition, they may have only days left to live,” says Ilay. “Hamas is using Evyatar in one of the most horrific and calculated campaigns imaginable… they are starving him deliberately, systematically using his agonizing suffering as a twisted tool for their depraved propaganda.”

“This is not just a violation of international law — it is an assault on every shred of basic human decency,” says Ilay. “An act so vile it scars the very soul of humanity.”

He calls on the government of Israel and world leaders, especially US President Donald Trump, to bring about the hostages’ release “by any means necessary.”

“To remain silent now is to be complicit in their slow agonizing death,” he says.

Yeela David, Evyatar’s younger sister, addresses her brother in Hebrew: “Mom is shattered and not functioning, Dad hears your voice at night and doesn’t close his eyes, but Ilay and I are taking care of them.”

“We are so waiting for your return and to recover together with you,” she says.