The Daily Populous Sunday August 4th, 2024 evening edition
Authored by m.jpost.com and submitted by Winged_One_97

The family of murdered hostage Eitan Levi published footage of his body being abused in the streets of Gaza on Oct. 7 to their Instagram account on Saturday.

In the footage, Eitan's body is seen being dragged into Gaza in the back of a car, followed by a crowd of Gazans chasing the vehicle.

In the following clip, the crowd can be seen stomping on and kicking Eitan's lifeless body.

The footage, which has been blurred, is graphic.

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At the request of Levi's family, the Foreign Ministry shared the footage on X, formerly Twitter, as well."In this video, a mob of Gazans abuse and desecrate Eitan’s body, which hangs out of a car trunk," the ministry wrote. "Imagine if these were your neighbors. May Eitan’s memory be a blessing."

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Eitan, a taxi driver from Bat Yam, was not from the South and was only in the area on October 7 to deliver a passenger to Kibbutz Beeri.

After dropping the passenger off, Eitan tried to leave but was hit by either a missile or drone while on the phone with his son. He then ran into a Hamas ambush.

His family heard terrorists approach and kidnap Eitan, with multiple voices arguing in Arabic being heard on the phone.

It was later revealed that Eitan had been forced to sit and identify himself before the phone was disconnected.

It is unclear what happened next, but on December 8th, it was confirmed that he was murdered by Hamas terrorists, and his body was being held by the Islamist organization in Gaza.

Levi's family has decided to release the footage as "proof that there is no innocent citizen in Gaza."

The family called for the release of the remaining hostages.

ELchimador on August 3rd, 2024 at 17:57 UTC »

What kind of state can emerge from such inhumanity? This isn't Hamas, or PLO... just people on the street.

NotSoSaneExile on August 3rd, 2024 at 14:08 UTC »

I'll add a submission statement since I see there is none:

The article talks about the family of Eitan Levi, agreeing to release a video showing his corpse being mutilated by a Gazan mob during October 7.

Eitan Levi was an Israeli taxi driver who was murdered during October 7. In the video shared in the article you can see how his lifeless corpse was driven to Gaza in the back of a car, following by a crazed mob which ended up stomping on his corpse while chanting.

The family agreed to share this video in order to raise awareness to the hostages, both living and dead, and the importance of bringing them home.

morriganjane on August 3rd, 2024 at 12:43 UTC »

Several hostages' families have given consent recently for videos of their relatives to be shown, to increase the pressure to bring them home. I think Eitan is the first of these who is known to have been murdered. The others are living hostages (it's still hoped). It is very, very important within Judaism for their remains to be returned for decent burial, and seeing how their bodies were defiled in Gaza will only increase that wish.