Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the footage of hostages Rom Breslavsky and Evyatar David in a video. He expressed shock at their condition and said: "I called the families, embraced them on behalf of myself and my wife. You see them rotting in a dungeon, but the Hamas monsters have thick, meaty arms." Netanyahu added that "Hamas is starving them just as the Nazis starved Jews. Hamas doesn't want a deal. It wants to break us through these horror videos, through the false horror propaganda it spreads throughout the world."