The Real Genocide: Hamas’s Ongoing Torture of Israeli Hostages

August 5, 2025 – Jerusalem | IsraelPress

While the world debates ceasefires and humanitarian corridors, a silent genocide is unfolding behind closed doors—against innocent Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.

Newly released footage of Rom Braslavski and Evyatar David reveals a horrifying truth: the two men, kidnapped nearly two years ago, appear severely emaciated, psychologically broken, and visibly tortured. Pale, weak, and traumatized, their condition is a direct result of deliberate abuse and starvation by their captors.

“This is not captivity. This is slow, systematic extermination,” said a senior Israeli official.

Hamas is committing crimes against humanity—starving hostages, denying medical care, and using them as human shields while the international community looks away. These acts meet every definition of genocide under international law: the intentional destruction of a people, not through bullets, but through slow, cruel suffering.

The videos have triggered shockwaves in Israel and beyond. Families of the hostages are calling on world leaders and human rights organizations to stop ignoring this humanitarian catastrophe and demand immediate access to all captives.

Prime Minister Netanyahu condemned the abuse as “evil in its purest form,” reaffirming Israel’s commitment to bring its citizens home—with force, if necessary.

“No nation on Earth would tolerate its sons and daughters being starved and tortured in underground cells. Neither will Israel.”

As calls for Israeli restraint grow louder, many ask: where is the outrage for the victims buried alive in Gaza’s tunnels? Where are the protests for those whose bodies are wasting away while the world negotiates with terrorists?

If the international community truly stands for human rights, then it must recognize what is happening: a genocide against Israeli hostages, carried out in the shadows, while Hamas continues to act with impunity.