Former hostage Evyatar David, who was among the last captives released by the terror group in an October 2025 ceasefire deal, told CNN he still wakes up with nightmares almost a year after his return.
“It can surprise me any time, one hour I can be fine and happy, and next I can remember something from captivity, and get flashbacks. I wake up at night with nightmares, and it affects me all day after that. It’s very unstable and random,” he said, in remarks aired on Wednesday.
In the interview, David’s first with an international outlet, the 25-year-old, whom invading terrorists kidnapped from the Nova music festival on October 7, 2023, recalled being made to dig his own grave in a Hamas propaganda video last summer.
“You can see my body, I could barely move, when I tried to dig the grave, just to hold the shovel was almost impossible, probably the hardest physical thing I ever did,” he said.
David said that he and fellow hostage Guy Gilboa-Dalal “didn’t eat for three months.”
