What I’m doing now is digging my own grave,” says Evyatar David, as his fragile figure, weak with hunger, scrapes at the dirt with a shovel in a cramped Gaza tunnel.

( JTA) — The Israeli government bought a billboard in New York City’s Times Square to showcase the video released last week by Hamas of one of its Israeli hostages, Evyatar David. See our full guidelines for more information, and this guide for detail about canonical URLs.

The sight of hostages Evyatar David and Rom Braslavski appearing severely emaciated in videos released by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in recent days was “appalling,” says International Committee of the Red Cross spokesman Gilad Grossman,