Political leadership has received data from the security establishment in recent months about the deteriorating condition of hostages, including information about deliberate starvation. This emerges from a ynet investigation, and according to sources familiar with the matter: "The visual appearance is still shocking, but it's not something we didn't know." Information about deliberate starvation was also raised in meetings of the limited security cabinet, which includes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Israel Katz, Ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir and others, as well as in the political-security cabinet, which includes additional senior ministers. Additionally, the information came up in various security consultations held by Netanyahu, ministers and senior officials in the security establishment.