‘Before I die, bring some food into Gaza’: Israeli captive pleads with genocidal regime
An Israeli captive held in Gaza has blamed the Israeli regime’s ongoing blockade of the besieged enclave for denying food to its population, including the captives themselves, saying they are starving alongside the rest of Gaza’s residents.
A visibly emaciated Rom Barslavski made the remarks in a video released Friday by the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement.
He lamented the regime’s near-total siege of Gaza for starving everyone, including the captives and the Gazan children, whose acutely malnourished bodies the captive said he saw on television every day.
“[The children of Gaza are] dying of hunger: Nothing but bones. With my own eyes, I see their children’s bones. It is not logical, and it is an abuse of innocent people,” Barslavski said.
“If it weren’t for the resistance fighters here, I would be dead,” he said, telling the regime’s officials, “You are not allowed to do this. I’m starting to die. They’re starting to insert food by tube. I’m dying.”
The regime began to intensify the siege to insufferable levels months ago in a move aimed at, what critics call, maximizing agony and fatalities among Gaza’s two-million-plus population.
In November 2023, a temporary ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Hamas resistance group led to the release of several captives and Palestinian prisoners. However, the Israeli regime refused to extend the deal as initially planned, choosing instead to intensify its military assaults on Gaza.
Dozens of the captives have already been killed in Israel's indiscriminate strikes, and now, the starvation is taking its toll on them.
The Palestinian resistance movements, the regime’s own officials, including the former head of its Shin Bet spy agency, and the captives’ family members have, meanwhile, been strongly protesting against the regime for its refusal to sign a new ceasefire accord.
"Why are you doing this to us? Bring in food. I survive on less than a liter of water and sewage. I lie on a mattress 24 hours a day. I’m on the verge of death,” Barslavski pleaded.
Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing, also released a similar footage showing a bony Israeli captive, berating Tel Aviv for using starvation as a weapon of war.
“They eat what we eat. They drink what we drink. The occupation regime has decided to starve them,” read the video’s caption.
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