Netanyahu has expressed shock at Hamas videos showing Israeli hostages, including one seemingly digging his own grave. The videos have sparked outrage and renewed calls for a truce and hostage release.

Hamas appears to have forced Israeli hostage Evyatar David to dig his own grave in a newly released clip Friday.

Witkoff and the U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, visited an aid site in Gaza run by the controversial Israel and U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) on Friday, as the United Nations said that over 1,373 Palestinians have been killed while seeking food since the end of May, including 859 at GHF sites.