MORNING MUSINGS
What Do You See?
Peter Himmelman
August 5, 2025

…Evyatar David is twenty-three. He had just finished his military service when, on October 7, he went to the Nova music festival—a peace festival near the Gaza border. A celebration of joy, music, and coexistence. He’s an artist, a dancer, by all accounts a gentle soul. That’s where they took him. That’s where Hamas came storming in—on paragliders, pickup trucks, and motorcycles—and began executing young people one by one. Some were shot while hiding. Some were raped and tortured before being killed. Some were burned alive.  Evyatar was dragged into Gaza. His family had no word from him for over a year—until Hamas released a propaganda video this August, showing his emaciated form and the horror he endures. In the footage, he is forced to dig what he believes is his own grave. His parents approved the release of the clip, hoping the world would wake up to the barbarity of what is happening. READ MORE

NEW YORK POST Israeli ‘living-skeleton’ hostage’s brother blasts ‘well-fed’ Hamas terrorists for also starving ‘own population’ The brother of the hostage forced by Hamas to dig his own grave blasted the “well-fed” terrorists for leaving his brother like a “living skeleton” — and ignoring the plight of those starving across Gaza. “We saw the well-fed hand of the terrorist in that video that Hamas released this past weekend,” Ilay David told “Fox & Friends” Wednesday of the horrific footage of his 24-year-old brother, Evyatar David. “You can see that the terrorists have food and the testimonies of captivity survivors says the same,” he said.