Overview

• Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad released disturbing videos featuring hostages Rom Breslavski and Evyatar David, both visibly emaciated and traumatized after nearly two years in captivity.

• Hamas has demanded an Israeli acceptance of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital in return for releasing hostages and disarming.

• Canada, Germany, and France airdropped 126 food packages into Gaza. Egypt, Jordan, and the UAE contributed another 52 food packages via air.

• US envoy Steve Witkoff visited three GHF food distribution points along the Morag corridor.

• Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that Canada would join the UK and France and recognize a Palestinian state during the upcoming UN General Assembly in September. President Trump publicly condemned the recognition moves as a “reward to Hamas”.

Gaza 

Hostage Deal

• Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad released disturbing videos featuring hostages Rom Breslavski and Evyatar David, both visibly emaciated and traumatized after nearly two years in captivity. One clip shows a hostage being forced to dig his own grave in a Hamas tunnel. These actions are part of a calculated campaign to pressure Israel into a hostage deal on Hamas’s terms after Hamas saw that it can harden its positions due to the success of the starvation in Gaza campaign that it launched. As Israel is under…