Hamas proudly releases sadistic video of starving hostages
The operative word is “proudly.”
During World War II, the Nazis figured much of the world would disapprove of their sadistic torture and cold-blooded murder of Jews and others, so they took pains to hide it. In contrast, Hamas celebrates their own torture and murder of Jews and broadcasts it, believing the world will approve and admire, and that those in the West who don’t like it will cower and beg and ultimately capitulate. And they know that Western “leaders” like Starmer and Macron and Carney will hasten to give them what they say they want – a wonderful torture/terrorist state of their own.
How we have progressed.
So two new hostages videos not only feature hostages who look like inmates of concentration camps when the Allies liberated them and were able to document their suffering, but they involve one of the hostages digging his own grave-to-be, another Nazi-esque torture game. These Holocaust references are almost certainly deliberate; Hamas delights in riffing on these old themes, including the blood libel against Jews. It’s Hamas’ stock in trade.
And speaking of blood libel, the recent hoax “starvation” photos of Gazan infants were bought hook line and sinker by the MSM in the West, including the US and our own Gray Lady the New York Times. That recent PR campaign by Hamas purposely set up the starvation image theme with the message that Israel starves Gazan babies – although of course any actual starvation there (which doesn’t seem to be happening) would be the fault of Hamas itself for cruelly starting the war and refusing to surrender the hostages.
The Germans went hungry towards the end of World War II, but I don’t recall the Allies weeping over that and feeding them until they had surrended. Until then, they were the enemy, they were guilty, and their hunger was their own fault. Israel is the only nation on earth expected to feed those who would destroy it.
All the MSM articles I’ve seen on the new hostage videos make the explicit connection with the Gaza “famine” that’s been pushed for the whole war but which has picked up steam recently; for example, see this:
“We ask that Witkoff see this video. And we make an urgent plea to President Trump: Bring our son home,” the [hostage’s] family said.
Earlier this week, a UN-backed food security agency warned that “the worst case scenario of famine” is unfolding in Gaza, its starkest alert yet as Israel faces growing international pressure to allow more food into the territory.
Gaza’s health ministry said Saturday that seven people had died from malnutrition in the past 24 hours, including one child, bringing the total death toll from starvation since the conflict began in 2023 to 169.
In addition, at least 39 people were killed and more than 800 injured in the same period while waiting for aid in different parts of the territory, the ministry added.
It’s like quoting Goebbels about the Nazis’ suffering.
Because of Hamas’ refusal to make a reasonable deal, neither Israel nor Trump can bring hostages home without strengthening Hamas immeasurably and Hamas knows it. Only Hamas can bring them home. That’s a harsh truth that was apparent right from the start, and that’s the power that Hamas knew it would get by taking hostages and is actually the reason Hamas took them.
The starvation theme had been cleverly set up by Hamas, and the minute I heard there were new hostage videos that showed starving hostages I knew that the goal was to tie the two together: “You starve our babies, so of course the hostages are starving because we just don’t have the food to feed them and it’s your fault!” And indeed, that was the explicit message and not just the implicit one, as the leftist Guardian parrots [my emphasis]:
On Saturday, Hamas released a second video of hostage Evyatar David. In it, David is skeletally thin and is shown digging a hole, which, he says in the video, is for his own grave.
Israeli restrictions on the entry of goods and aid into Gaza have led to severe shortages of food and other essentials, stoking international demands for a ceasefire. UN-backed food security experts said this week that the “worst-case scenario of famine” is now playing out in Gaza.
Hamas has included this issue in their hostage videos, warning that the hostages are going hungry alongside their captors and that time is running out for a ceasefire.
“UN-backed food security experts,” say it, therefore it must be true.
Hamas also claims to want a state of its own, and the video thereby mocks and teases their cooperative puppets Starmer and Macron and Carney for wanting to give them one. “This is who we are; this is what you are rewarding.” Recently a Hamas official said this:
In his own words, senior Hamas terrorist Ghazi Hamad admits: “The recognition of a Palestinian state is one of the fruits of October 7.”
This abhorrent reward for terrorism and sadism towards innocents should surprise no one; it was the Munich Olympics massacre more than 50 years ago that put the Palestinian cause on the map.
The other goal of Hamas’ new video is to continue to psychologically torture Israelis and especially the hostage families, and to get them to blame and pressure Israel, as so often happens. Mission accomplished.
And then we have Macron’s grotesque equivalency:
Speaking to an assembled crowd, Macron said, “I pushed everyone to say, ‘First release the hostages, and a ceasefire,’ and therefore we must push.” When asked if that included Palestinian hostages as well, Macron replied, “Yes, all of them. All of them. On both sides.”
Apparently, according to the morally and intellectually bankrupt Macron and so many others, the terrorists in Israeli prisons are “Palestinian hostages.”
It’s my continued hope that sane policy will prevail in Gaza, albeit more than a year and a half late in coming: Amit Segal reports just this day — “Senior official in Netanyahu’s office: The decision has been made — we’re going to occupy Gaza.”, https://x.com/AmitSegal/status/1952413347040637418 and a couple of hours ago —
https://x.com/AmitSegal/status/1952365102520270986
The Israelis should occupy all of Gaza, and imprison all Hamas fighters they find.
Total occupation will save few, if any, hostages — but is the only way to end Hamas. Israeli occupation, of all Gaza ( so small), is the only way to start a process of civic change with Israel taking authority & responsibility for governing Gaza.
Lots of work camps, lots of payments (in dollars? Or continuing in Israeli shekels) by Israeli bosses to Gazans doing work. More good food available for money, more Gaza IDs issued by Israel to track who gets aid.
The complaining intl countries are unlikely to accept many Gaza refugees, but Israel should be supporting as many who want to leave & can find a place that accepts them.
Eisenhower made sure that American troops saw the concentration camps after they were discovered, to be sure that the atrocities would not be hidden. Hamas’s proud airing of this degraded footage reveals the depths of its rotten soul, as did the live broadcasting of the atrocities of Oct. 7, 2023.
I do appreciate that Israel, or at least Netanyahu, continues to press on, to keep trying things and not get suckered into a stalemate with Hamas.
Shame, shame on France, UK, and Canada.
Hamasidols. Planned Palestinianhood (PP) is a liberally licit Choice following progressive principles to relieve a “burden” h/t Obama under the Pro-Choice religion. A transition from a viable to a dead state through abortion, sequestration of body and carbon.
“The Germans went hungry towards the end of World War II, but I don’t recall the Allies weeping over that and feeding them until they had surrended. Until then, they were the enemy, they were guilty, and their hunger was their own fault. Israel is the only nation on earth expected to feed those who would destroy it.”
Closer to home…here’s General Sherman, in 1864:
“Headquarters Military Division of the Mississippi, in the Field, Atlanta, Georgia, September 12, 1864.
James M. Calhoun, Mayor, E.E. Rawson, S.C. Wells, representing City Council of Atlanta.
Gentlemen,
I have your letter of the 11th, in the nature of a petition to revoke my orders removing all the inhabitants from Atlanta. I have read it carefully, and give full credit to your statements of the distress that will be occasioned, any yet shall not revoke my orders, because they were not designed to meet the humanities of the case, but to prepare for the future struggles in which millions of good people outside of Atlanta have a deep interest. We must have Peace, not only in Atlanta, but in All America. To secure this, we must stop the war that now desolates our once happy and favored country. To stop war, we must defeat the rebel armies which are now arrayed against the laws and Constitution that all must respect and obey. To defeat those armies, we must prepare the way to reach them in their recesses, provided with the arms and instruments which enable us to accomplish our purpose. Now I know the vindictive nature of our enemy, that we may have many years of military operations from this quarter; and, therefore, deem it wise and prudent to prepare in time. The use of Atlanta for warlike purposes is inconsistent with its character as a home for families. There will be no manufactures, commerce, or agriculture here, for the maintenance of families, and sooner or later want will compel the inhabitants to go. Why no go now, when all the arrangements are completed for the transfer, instead of waiting till the plunging shot of contending armies will renew the scenes of the past month? Of course, I do not apprehend any such thing at this moment, but you do not suppose this army will be here until the war is over. I cannot discuss this subject with you fairly, because I cannot impart to you what we propose to do, but I assert that our military plans make it necessary for the Inhabitants to go away, and I can only renew my offer of services to make their exodus in any direction as easy and comfortable as possible. You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our Country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to Secure Peace. But you cannot have Peace and a Division of our Country. If the United States submits to a Division now it will not stop, but will go on until we reap the fate of Mexico, which is Eternal War. The United States does and must assert its authority, wherever it once had power; for, if it relaxes one bit to pressure, it is gone, and I believe that such is the National Feeling. This Feeling assumes various shapes, but always comes back to that of Union. Once admit the Union, once more acknowledge the Authority of the National Government, and, instead of devoting your houses and streets and roads to the dread uses of war, I and this army become at once your protectors and supporters, shielding you from danger, let it come from what quarter it may. I know that a few individuals cannot resist a torrent of error and passion, such as swept the South into rebellion, but you can point out, so that we may know those who desire a government, and those who insist on war and its desolation.
You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war. They are inevitable, and the only way the people of Atlanta can hope once more to live in peace and quiet at home, is to stop the war, which can only be done by admitting that it began in error and is perpetuated in pride. We don’t want your negroes, or your horses, or your houses, or your hands, or any thing that you have, but we do want and will have a just obedience to the laws of the United States. That we will have, and, if it involves the destruction of your improvements, we cannot help it. You have heretofore read public sentiment in your newspapers, that live by falsehood and excitement; and the quicker you seek for truth in other quarters, the better.
I repeat then that, by the original compact of Government, the United States had certain rights in Georgia, which have never been relinquished and never will be; that the South began war by seizing forts, arsenals, mints, custom-houses, etc., etc., long before Mr. Lincoln was installed, and before the South had one jot or title of provocation. I myself have seen in Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi, hundreds of thousands of women and children fleeing from your armies and desperadoes, hungry and with bleeding feet. In Memphis, Vicksburg, and Mississippi, we fed thousands upon thousands of families of rebel soldiers left in our hands, and whom we could not see starve. Now that war comes home to you, you feel very different. You depreciate its horrors, but did not feel them when you sent car-loads of soldiers and ammunition, and moulded shells and shot, to carry war into Kentucky and Tennessee, to desolate the homes of hundreds of thousands of good people who only asked to live in peace at their old homes, and under the Government of their inheritance. But these comparisons are idle. I want peace, and believe it (can) only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect and early success.
But my dear sirs when Peace does come, you may call on me for any thing-Then I will share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
Now you must go, and take with you the old and feeble, feed and nurse them, and build for them, in more quiet places, proper habitations to shield them against the (wea)ther until the mad passions of men cool down, and allow the Union and (pe)ace once more to settle over your old homes at Atlanta. Yrs., in haste,”
During the First World War, the Royal Navy maintained a blockade of Germany and Austria, which resulted in widespread hunger in both countries. See the remarks of Captain Georg von Trapp (portrayed as The Captain in the Musical The Sound of Music) in his memoirs:
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/70506.html
Rather than imprisoning violent terrorists, if Israel instead executed them… Hamas would have less of an incentive to seize hostages. Occupation of Gaza will, sooner or later result in entrapped IDF soldiers, who will then provide Islamists with more hostages. Which suggests that the solution that the Romans applied to end the threat from Carthage would be a more effective way to deal with Hamas operating out of Gaza.
@David Foster, has there ever been a more poetic rendering of the problem than Sherman’s? I wonder how that letter was preserved. The full text is incredible to read.
Not that anyone’s gonna pay attention…since the current “Narrative” seems pretty entrenched globally, perhaps even indestructible—CONGRATS ALL YOU HUMANE MEDIA GOONS OUT THERE!— especially as it provides hundreds of millions of minions a much-needed target at which to direct all their bottled-up HATE:
‘Witkoff On Gaza: “There is hardship and shortage, but no starvation”’—
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/08/witkoff-on-gaza-there-is-hardship-and-shortage-but-no-starvation/
+ Bonus! (Brendan O’Neill)
“The West is complicit in Hamas’s torture of the hostages;
“The recognition of Palestine is a sick reward for Hamas’s anti-Semitic atrocities.”—
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/08/04/the-west-is-complicit-in-hamass-torture-of-the-hostages/
H/T Powerline blog.
There was the bus 300 incident when several prisoners ended up dead at the hands of the shinbet which prompted the landau commission (interesting the lead officer involved ended up a middleman for arafat) similar to some of ourincidents in afghanistan and iraqWe apprenhended ksm the man most responsible for 9-11 in terms of training and planning and look at the kerfluffle that was made of some of tactics employed against him same with the one that planned the cole bombing where 17 sailors drowned
I am not Jewish. Nevertheless, I want Hamas utterly destroyed. Sick rabid savage animals they are.
Hamas will not be destroyed. The entire globe has turned anti-Semitic in an inversion of rationality. Macron is a prime example. Disgusting and revolting.
This has little to do with Jewishness, IMO. I am a fairly devout Roman Catholic.
Geoffrey Britain has it exactly right: It should be Carthage all the way down.
It may be impractical, but I don’t think I would have had any objections if Israel had gone “Old Testament” on Hamas after 10/7/23. Almost two years later, the problem still festers.
I have similar thoughts about 9/11/01. It’s almost 24 years later, and Islam has made far too many inroads into our [USA] society and country!
David Foster:
Thank you for publishing in its entirety General Sherman’s missive. I have frequently encountered that snippet in which he pronounces that war is cruelty which can not be refined, but never before read the entire thing. Shame on me. I am struck by the stark truthfullness of the letter as well as its elegant phrasing. Its application to the events in Israel/Gaza is totally apt. The craven moral cowardice of people like Macron is put into high relief against such brilliant insights and sentiments. Our current crop of European “leaders” (into which I have no choice but to now include the Canadian PM) is a disgrace to Western Civilization. Of course, I must also include in that group certain Americans, like the moronic governors of New York, Illinois, Colorado and California as well as the mayors of our soi disant “sanctuary cities.” I can only hope that there still exists men of intelligence and moral fortitude like Sherman, and that they are allowed to lead us into the future. God help us if that is not to be the case.
I’ll add my thank you as well David Foster. Not sure I ever read that in full.
Steve, Mike Plaiss…thanks! Also, I highly recommend Captain von Trapp’s memoir, or at least the excerpts from it at my link.
I read somewhere about a siege, the defenders drove out all the “mouths” in a time honored fashion. The attackers refused to let them pass, they died of starvation under the walls by the thousands. We have not changed!
Actually, we have…at least in some ways.
Here’s a masterclass in deception…from the masters!
“How Hamas stages scenes of suffering;
“A new investigation raises serious allegations against Anas Zayed Patia, a Gazan photographer accused of staging suffering scenes to serve Hamas propaganda.”—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/412842
Barry I don’t think so. Change that is!