MUST SEE: Brother of Hamas victim shares his tragic story



Dave Rubin is in Israel this week to talk to locals and hear their stories. Yesterday, he met with 26-year-old Ilay David.

Ilay’s younger brother, Evyatar, was taken hostage by Hamas during the Nova Festival on October 7. When the invasion began, Evyatar texted his brother informing him of the attack, but their connection was soon lost. Shortly after, Evyatar’s sister posted his photo on Instagram asking if anyone had seen him. An unknown number messaged her back with videos of Evyatar. The first showed him being dragged inside Gaza by a terrorist, and the second showed him handcuffed on the floor in a dark room with several other victims, including his childhood best friend.

“The cameraman was making sure that we [would] see their faces and recognize them,” Ilay tells Dave, noting that his brother was staring at the camera with “primal fear.”

“At that moment, I felt mostly anger. … I felt like I failed to protect my younger sibling, and I felt helpless – like there's nothing I can do,” says Ilay.

After a week had passed, Ilay joined a families' forum and has since been doing everything in his power to bring his brother and the other hostages home safely.

Despite released hostages’ reportings of mental and physical abuse and there currently being “no signs of life,” Ilay refuses to give up hope that his brother will come home one day.

“We have to fight evil and bring them back home – all of them – as soon as possible,” he says.

To hear Ilay’s story – a tale of unshakeable hope in the face of tragedy and fear – watch the clip below.


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'You ridiculous clown': Prime minister of Ireland gets obliterated online for remarks about 9-year-old Israeli hostage



The Prime Minister of Ireland was lambasted online for his remarks about a 9-year-old Israeli girl who was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists and taken as a hostage.

As Blaze News previously reported on Saturday, Hamas released 17 hostages – 13 Israelis and four Thai nationals. The hostage swap happened on the second day of the temporary four-day truce between Israel and Hamas.

Included in the Israeli hostages was 9-year-old Emily Hand – a girl of Irish and Israeli descent. Her father initially believed that his daughter was murdered during the onslaught by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7. Hand was held captive by Hamas terrorists for 50 days – during that time, Emily turned nine years old.

Ireland Prime Minister Leo Varadkar commented on the hostage release on Saturday. However, Varadkar received a barrage of criticism for the wording of Hand's release by the Hamas terrorists.

"This is a day of enormous joy and relief for Emily Hand and her family. An innocent child who was lost has now been found and returned, and we breathe a massive sigh of relief. Our prayers have been answered," Varadkar wrote on the X social media platform.

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Varadkar's tweet was slapped with a disclaimer from X: "Readers added context they thought people might want to know."

"Emily Hand was kidnapped by Hamas Terrorists on October the 7th," the message from X read. "The use of the term lost is inappropriate and fails to highlight that she was released as part of a hostage deal."

Not only was Varadkar corrected by the social media network, but many online commentators obliterated Varadkar for his mischaracterization of the hostage release of the kidnapped girl.

Israeli spokesperson Eylon Levy: "Emily Hand wasn't 'lost.' She was brutally abducted by the death squads that massacred her neighbors. She wasn't 'found.' Hamas knew where she was all along and cynically held her as a hostage. And Hamas didn't answer your prayers. It answered Israel's military pressure."

Author Bethany S. Mandel: "As a Jew of Irish descent, I am so horrified and disgusted. Lost and found like she went for a f***ing hike in the woods."

Journalist Kassy Dillon: "She wasn’t 'lost.' She was kidnapped by terrorists."

Libs of TikTok creator Chaya Raichik: "This is disgusting. Prime Minister of Ireland says an Irish-Isareli child was 'lost' and has been found and returned to her family. That child was taken hostage by Hamas terrorists on Oct 7 and was released today in exchange for Palestinian prisoners. She was not 'lost.'"

Podcast host Konstantin Kisin: "We need a complete shutdown of these people being elected until we can work out what the hell is going on."

Actor Dean Cain: "She wasn’t 'lost.' She was kidnapped by terrorists."

Muslim influencer Mohammad Tawhidi: "Translation: Emily was kidnapped by Hamas, but I am a crooked coward who will make it sound as though she was lost in a shopping mall."

Political commentator Carl Benjamin: "It is important to remember that leftists believe that the villains are powerless to resist their own barbaric impulses. They are victims of circumstance, not bad people, and therefore any boon that comes from them is equivalent to an act of God to be praised."

Fighter Conor McGregor: "She was abducted by an evil terrorist organization. What is with you and your government and your paid for media affiliates constantly down playing / attempting to repress horrific acts that happen to children. You are a disgrace. The day after a stabbing of children in Ireland, NOT ONE PAPER HAD IT ON THEIR FRONT COVER. We will not forget."

Author Sean Parnell: "You ridiculous clown. She was kidnapped & taken hostage by Hamas. This terrorist sympathizer is the Prime Minister of Ireland. So tired of lunatics like this. Their inability to speak with moral clarity about real life evil is a danger to all of us."

Women's advocate Riley Gaines: "To the prime minister of Ireland, being KIDNAPPED by a terrorist organization is just part of a big game of hide and seek. Community notes prevail again."

Journalist Rita Panahi: "Lost, found & returned? She’s not a pair of sunglasses accidentally left behind…she was kidnapped by the Islamist terrorists of Hamas, you quisling clown."

On Sunday afternoon – following the bashing he received online – Varadkar released his "full statement" of the release of Emily Hand.

A little girl was snatched from her home and held captive for almost seven weeks. She spent her ninth birthday as a hostage. We hope she will soon heal and recover from the traumatic experience in the loving embrace of her family.

For her family, these seven weeks have been a slow and cruel torture. We all recall the initial response from her father Tom Hand - the painful grief mixed with relief with the mistaken belief that his daughter had not been taken hostage, which turned into an ember of hope when it was discovered she was still alive. Throughout all these different emotions his love has been constant.

Tom and Emily's half-sister Natali turned that ember of hope into a flame by channeling their sorrow and campaigning tirelessly for Emily's release. They traveled across Europe to keep her plight in the public eye. When I met Tom and Natali in Dublin, their pain was etched on their faces, but so was their courage and determination to ensure that Emily would be freed. I shared their grief and was inspired by their example.

Irish people everywhere share in the relief of Emily's family. Our thoughts and prayers are with all the hostages in Gaza, but we followed particularly closely the fate of Emily, a dual Irish-Israeli citizen. Since our country first heard that she may still be alive, we have hoped beyond hope that her name would be on one of the lists of hostages to be released.

Emily now returns to her family, but we cannot forget that many more hostages remain in captivity in Gaza. Their fate is unknown, but we hope that like Emily, they will also be allowed to return to their homes and their families. We think of all the families suffering in this troubled region, and we redouble our efforts to work for a permanent ceasefire, and for a just a lasting peace.
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Why The Left’s Antisemitic Hysterics Shouldn’t Surprise Anyone

In the wake of Oct. 7, the left's response makes much more sense when you consider the falsehoods they choose to believe about Israeli history.

Leftists Silently Shredding Hostage Posters Are Saying Exactly What You Think They Are

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Why is American media so quick to embrace Palestinian propaganda?



The American media refuses to call Nazis “Nazis” — unless, of course, it’s Donald Trump.

“Then they’ll call him Hitler,” Mark Levin says, before adding. “The greatest friend the Jews in Israel have ever known — Donald Trump. He's Hitler.”

Meanwhile, the American media is spouting Hamas’ propaganda and questioning Israel’s right to defend itself against annihilation.

“Hamas plays the media like a fiddle,” Levin says, noting that if Hamas were the side that actually cared about the civilian casualties displayed all over the news, they wouldn’t have missile launching sites in hospitals, mosques, and elementary schools.

“They spend the vast majority of their money building weapons and tunnels to kill Jewish people. They don’t care about the people; if they cared about the people, they wouldn’t be terrorists,” he adds.

Levin predicts that the American media won’t just play Hamas propaganda on repeat but will completely turn against Israel, “just as they covered up the Holocaust during World War II.”

While Hamas’ motivation is about the Jews, otherwise known to the media and liberals as “the occupiers,” he believes it's about more than that.

The Quran tells its believers to “eliminate the Jews, to eliminate the Christians, to eliminate the atheists and the non-believers.”

And considering that, it’s no wonder Iran wants a nuclear weapon.

“Obviously to try and blow Israel off the face of the earth,” Levin says, before explaining that Joe Biden, who’s given billions to Iran, is one major figure to blame.

“He’s capitulated to the Hamas Nazi wing of his party, he’s funded Iran, he’s funded the Palestinians, he’s done everything he shouldn’t have done, and in that, he’s betrayed the people of Israel, just as he’s betraying the people of the United States.”


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