Overview

• The Israeli consulate in New York projected a Hamas-released video of 24-year-old Evyatar David looking emaciated and exhausted inside a Gaza tunnel onto a Times Square billboard
• Israel’s foreign ministry framed the screening as evidence that Hamas is starving its captives and criticized global media for focusing on Gaza’s famine instead of the hostages’ plight
• Official Israeli army figures show that 49 hostages remain in Gaza and 27 are believed to have died out of the 251 seized during the October 7, 2023 attack
• IDF Chief of Staff General Eyal Zamir warned that intensifying combat operations and a full Gaza occupation could prove fatal for the remaining detainees
• Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will convene his security cabinet to set the next phase of Gaza operations, with decisions poised to affect hostage survival