ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT
8/4/25
6:44 PM
DAVID MUIR: Overseas tonight, the haunting images of the hostages still being held by Hamas, appearing desperate and frail. The family of one hostage tonight describing him as a living skeleton. Tonight, what Israel is now threatening to do to get the hostages out. Here's Ian Pannell.
IAN PANNELL: Tonight, the haunting images shocking Israel, prompting international outcry. Emaciated hostages in Gaza on the drink of starvation. The propaganda videos coming after weeks of terrible images of children in Gaza dying of malnutrition. Now, sources telling ABC News Prime Minister Netanyahu threatening to expand the military operation to occupy all of Gaza and get the hostages home. 24-year-old Evyatar David, seen in that disturbing video. His family saing he's become a living skeleton, buried alive in a Hamas tunnel. We soak with his brother, Ilay.
What impact has the release of the video had on the family?
ILAY DAVID: It's really crushed us. We were in -- in a roller coaster, emotional storm. Because it was a sign of life.
PANNELL: And hostage Ram Braslavski, seen here saying, “I'm at death's door” in a chilling video released by Islamic Jihad. Both families agreeing for the media to show these horrific images. Ilay David critical of Hamas for using the hostages and its own people as bargaining chips.
DAVID: They use my brother, they use the other hostages, they use the people of Gaza as pawns in their sick game, so, first, this starvation must stop, but it will only happen if Hamas will allow it to stop.
PANNELL: David, it's unclear if Netanyahu's threat to occupy all of Gaza is actually a negotiating ploy to force Hamas to disarm and release all hostages, as Israel and the U.S. want. David.
MUIR: Ian Pannell live for us in Tel Aviv. Ian, thank you.
