The video, which lasts 1 minute and 20 seconds, is titled ‘They Eat What We Eat.’ It shows the hostage in a state of fatigue and emaciation inside what appears to be an underground tunnel, moving between sitting and walking. Earlier, the ‘Al-Quds Brigades,’ the military wing of the ‘Islamic Jihad’ movement, published a video last Thursday of another Israeli hostage held during the same attack. The video exceeded 6 minutes in length and featured the hostage speaking in Hebrew, identifying himself and urging the Israeli government to take action for his release. Media sources identified the hostage as Israeli-German citizen Rom Braslavsky, who had previously appeared in a video released by an armed faction allied with ‘Islamic Jihad’ on April 16. The Palestinian ‘Islamic Jihad’ movement announced last week that contact with the hostage had been lost, confirming at the beginning of the latest video that the footage was recorded more than a week ago. A video published by a United Nations agency showed the distribution of aid in the Gaza Strip. The clip, released by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on July 30, documented moments of gunfire very close to dozens of Palestinians lining up to receive food supplies. This comes amid the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where the United Nations has warned of the risk of ‘widespread famine’ after 22 months of war following the October 7 attack. The sector relies entirely on humanitarian aid amid a strict Israeli blockade that has led to a severe shortage of food and medicine.
