When the hostage family declared “Never again!”, Vedov arrived at the hostage square.
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad released a video of ROM Braslavski on Thursday, and Hamas released a video of Evyatar David on Friday.
The U.S. special, Middle East, Steve Witkoff, arrived at Tel Aviv’s hostage square on Saturday after the family erected a symbolic barbed wire fenced compound to protest against the hostage-dealed deal after terrorist groups held a video of hostages held by terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip on Thursday and Thursday and Friday.
Over the past two days, Hamas’ propaganda video showed Einav Zangauker, the mother of the hostage demonstration and hostage protester Matan Zangauker, said on X/Twitter on Saturday.
“My Matan is living.” “The videos of the hostages released in the past two days are breaking us.”
“Never again now!” she announced. The Hostages and Missing Family Forum urges the Israeli and the U.S. government to see loved ones in their eyes and calls for a comprehensive deal to free hostages and end the war immediately.
“The danger to their lives is tangible and direct. The risk of losing the dead is growing. Stop the nightmare and take them out of the tunnel and go home!”
Einav Zangauker at Madame Tel Aviv Hostage Square, August 2, 2025. (Credit: Paulina Patimer)
Gaza terrorist group releases hostage video
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad released a video of ROM Braslavski on Thursday, and Hamas released a video of Evyatar David on Friday.
In the promotional video, these two seem to have faded. The Braslavski family said they were “deeply shocked” by the video.
During the demonstration, Tamir Adar’s mother, Yael Adar, said she could not breathe after watching the video.
“Scene of skin and bones, my son does not even have the right to bury. In my situation, drive the hostages out. Life will not survive, they will not find the dead… We are destroying the third temple! Those who fast tomorrow should be quick and quick!”
“People talk a lot about Gaza, the hunger incident, and I want to ask everyone who talks about hunger: Did you see our ROM? He didn’t get food, he didn’t receive medicine. He was just forgotten there,” the family shared in a statement.
The “one million punches” of the heart
In response to David’s video, his sister Yaelah said: “Anyone who sees the video now knows the seriousness and physical condition of Evyatar, which feels like a million punches in my heart.”
“You all saw his appearance, hunger, his physical condition. Hamas starved people to death, not Israel,” former hostage Omer Wenkert said of the video showing David. “Although I lost 37 kilograms, I didn’t see the kidnapper losing a kilogram. Hamas is stealing.”
Wenkert was released in a narrow tunnel with David for 250 days.
