In the fifth round of the hostage deal and ceasefire, three Israeli hostages were released: Or Levy, Eli Sharabi, and Ohad Ben Ami. Their appalling physical appearance testifies to confinement under starvation conditions. The sight reminds us all of the Holocaust events from eight decades ago. It once again reveals how cruel Hamas is and where Hamas ranks the value of human life.

The focus of Palestinian social media channels, which mostly favor Hamas, illustrates the cynical attitude of the organization and of its supporters: The Palestinian channels featured Israeli news photos of the Israeli hostages and added some snide comments that Abu Ubayda, the spokesman for the Hamas military wing, made at the beginning of the war:

“This is what Israel, when it used starvation as a weapon against the residents of Gaza, did to its own people who were held by Hamas… Israeli media publishes photos of a captive Israeli from before his imprisonment in Gaza and from the time of his release.”

Abu Ubayda said at the beginning of the war, “Your prisoners will live the way the residents of Gaza live, in the shadow of an imposed famine. They will eat like the Gazans and will…