(All Israel News)—Shocking videos released by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad last week showing hostages Evyatar David and Rom Braslavski in a condition of severe malnutrition caused immediate outrage in Israel. However, the response of the international mainstream media, in almost completely ignoring the videos has led to renewed furor.
Several major news outlets around the world ran stories of the food shortage in Gaza over the past couple weeks, often using dramatic pictures of clearly malnourished children who were later revealed to have congenital conditions, which led to their declined physical state. While news organizations used the images to highlight the food shortage in Gaza, they positioned the images as depicting the results of an alleged Israeli “starvation campaign.”
After the videos depicting Rom Braslavski and Evyatar David were released by the two terror organizations, several voices in Israel wondered if those news organizations would devote the same amount of attention to the deliberately starved hostages. International Human Rights lawyer Arsen Ostrovsky predicted on social media that The New York Times would not publish a front page story about Evyatar.
This is what the @nytimes front page should look like today.
But it won’t. pic.twitter.com/wNsGneozOu
— Arsen Ostrovsky ?️ (@Ostrov_A) August 2, 2025
While they did run a short article on the videos of Evyatar and Rom, the story was not given priority placement on the website.
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