Overview

• A newly released video depicts 24-year-old Evyatar David emaciated and forced to dig what may be his own grave while surviving on a two-day ration of legumes
• Hamas reiterates refusal to disarm without recognition of a sovereign Palestinian state, contradicting Israel’s insistence on unconditional demilitarisation before any truce
• U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff urges a paradigm shift toward an all-or-nothing deal covering the release of all hostages and an immediate end to the war
• Italy and five other countries have begun airdropping 90 aid packages, but UN data show just 4,100 of 40,000 tonnes of humanitarian supplies have reached Gaza civilians
• President Isaac Herzog condemns the footage as proof of Hamas’s cruelty and calls for sustained diplomatic pressure to secure the return of all captives