Hugo Bachega, Middle East correspondent in Jerusalem and Mallory Moench, BBC News in London
Reuters
Crowds of protesters gathered in Tel Aviv over the weekend demanding the immediate release of the hostages
Western leaders have condemned videos of emaciated Israeli hostages filmed by their captors in Gaza, with the Red Cross calling for access to all remaining in captivity.
UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy said “images of hostages being paraded for propaganda are sickening” and they must be released “unconditionally”.
The calls come after the Palestinian Islamic Jihad published video of Rom Braslavski, thin and crying, on Thursday, and Hamas released footage of an emaciated Evyatar David on Saturday.
Israeli leaders accused Hamas of starving hostages.
Hamas’s armed wing denied it intentionally starves prisoners, saying hostages eat what their fighters and people eat amid a hunger crisis in Gaza.
Both Braslavski, 21, and David, 24, were taken hostage from the Nova music festival on 7 October 2023 during the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel.
They are among 49 hostages, out of 251 originally taken, who Israel says are still being held in Gaza. This includes 27 hostages who are believed to be dead.
After the videos were released, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with the two hostage families, expressing “profound shock” and telling them that efforts to return all the hostages “will continue constantly and relentlessly”.
On Sunday, Netanyahu spoke to the head of the Red Cross in the region, requesting his immediate involvement in providing food and medical care to hostages.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said it was “appalled” by the videos that gave “stark evidence of the life-threatening conditions in which the hostages are being held”.
The charity reiterated its call to be granted access to the hostages to assess their condition, give them medical support and facilitate contact with their families.
Hamas’s armed wing Al-Qassam Brigades said it would respond positively to any Red Cross request to deliver food and medicine to prisoners if humanitarian corridors were opened into Gaza on a regular and permanent basis, and air strikes halted during the time of receiving aid.
The Red Cross has faced heavy criticism in Israel over its role in the war, with claims that it has failed to help the hostages being held in Gaza.
Earlier this year, amid anger over chaotic scenes as hostages were freed as part of a deal between Israel and Hamas, the organisation explained the limits of its role, saying it relies on the warring parties’ goodwill to operate in conflict zones.
There has also been criticism from Palestinians, as the group has not been allowed to visit Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli jails since 7 October 2023.
At the weekend in Tel Aviv, crowds of protesters and hostage families gathered once again, calling on the Israeli government to secure the release of hostages.
David and Braslavski’s families said at a rally on Saturday that “everyone must get out of hell, now.”
In one video, Braslavski is seen crying as he says he has run out of food and water and only ate three “crumbs of falafels” that day. He says he is unable to stand or walk, and “is at death’s door”.
Braslavski’s family in a statement said “they managed to break Rom” and pleaded to Israeli and US leaders to bring their son home.
“He has simply been forgotten there,” they said.
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A still of a video released by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad showing Rom Braslavski
In the second video, David said “I haven’t eaten for days… I barely got drinking water” and is seen digging what he says will be his own grave.
His family said he was being “deliberately and cynically starved in Hamas’s tunnels in Gaza – a living skeleton, buried alive”.
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A still showing Israeli hostage Evyatar David being held in a Gaza tunnel from the video released by Hamas
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said he was “appalled” by the images, adding the release of all hostages was a mandatory prerequisite for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
French President Emmanuel Macron, who said Hamas embodies “abject cruelty”, added France continues to work tirelessly towards the release of hostages, to restore a ceasefire, and to enable humanitarian aid to enter Gaza.
He said this effort must be accompanied with a political solution, with a two-state solution “with Israel and Palestine living side by side in peace”. France recently announced its intention to recognise a Palestinian state, along with Canada and the UK, under certain conditions. Israel has strongly condemned the moves.
The images of emaciated hostages are coming out as UN-backed agencies have said the “worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out” in Gaza, with malnutrition deaths reported daily.
The Hamas-run health ministry said on Sunday that 175 people, including 93 children, have died of malnutrition since the start of the war.
The UN, aid agencies and some of Israel’s allies blame the hunger crisis on Israeli restrictions on the entry and delivery of humanitarian aid. Israel denies the allegation and blames Hamas.
Despite the overwhelming evidence, Israeli authorities, and part of the country’s press, strongly reject that there is starvation in Gaza, and say the crisis is a lie fabricated by Hamas and spread by international media.
Some pictures of emaciated children have been displayed by Israeli protesters calling for a deal with Hamas, but many in Israel seem unaware of the extent of the emergency there.
As the war continues, Israel faces growing international isolation, as the widespread destruction in Gaza and the suffering of Palestinians spark outrage.
Polls around the world suggest that public opinion is increasingly negative about Israel, which is putting pressure on leaders to act.
A shooting at Evergreen High School this afternoon hospitalized four students — three with gunshot wounds, including the suspected shooter.
The students with gunshot wounds were treated at CommonSpirit St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood. After treatment, two of the three — one being the suspect — are still in critical condition.
The third victim has non-life-threatening injuries.
The sheriff’s office confirmed in an evening update that the suspected shooter sustained a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Officials said a fourth juvenile took themselves to the hospital with injuries sustained while escaping the high school and fleeing to a nearby elementary school.
“This is the scariest thing you could ever think could happen,” said Jacki Kelley, public information officer with Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, at a press conference Wednesday afternoon. “Honestly, I don’t know if our suspect is old enough to even drive.”
Kevin J. Beaty/DenveriteCrime scene investigators inspect a lot near Evergreen High School, after a shooting there on Sept. 10, 2025.
Kelley said it was not clear who the shooter was or how many shooters may have been involved. Over 100 police officers from around the Denver area rushed to the school to try to help, Kelley said.
Officials said the shooter used a handgun and that police have not found a letter explaining the attack. Kelley said it appeared the shooting happened on school grounds, but outside the school.
The school is about 28 miles southwest of Denver. It enrolls about 900 students, according to the state Department of Education.
Tony Gorman/CPR NewsA long line of families and community members waiting outside the reunification point following a school shooting in Evergreen, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025.
Cameron Jones is a 9th grader at Evergreen High School. He said he was eating lunch outside when he heard three gunshots. A security guard then told him to run.
He said he never thought a shooting like Wednesday’s would happen in Evergreen.
“Absolutely not,” Jones said. “I thought this was like a one-in-a-million thing, and it still feels surreal that it happened.”
Jen Weber, a mother of a freshman student at the school, said she was washing her car when her son sent her a text message that a shooting was happening.
Kevin J. Beaty/DenveriteJen Weber watches with relief as her son, an Evergreen High School freshman, leaves the school after a shooting there on Sept. 10, 2025. She hiked through the woods to get closer.
“I think if I’m being honest with myself, I always knew it was ‘When, not if?’” Weber said. “But having been born and raised in Evergreen, I didn’t ever really think it would happen here in Evergreen.”
Weber was still waiting on Wednesday afternoon to be reunited with her son.
Authorities have not released more details on the shooting. Videos on social media show emergency service vehicles racing towards the school.
Kevin J. Beaty/DenveriteFirst responders are staged near Evergreen High School after a shooting was reported there. Sept. 10, 2025.
“I am closely monitoring the situation at Evergreen High School, and am getting live updates. State Troopers are supporting local law enforcement in responding to this situation. Students should be able to attend school safely and without fear across our state and nation. We are all praying for the victims and the entire community,” said Colorado Gov. Jared Polis.
Federal law enforcement is also responding to the scene to assist.
Allison Sherry/CPR NewsJefferson County Sheriff Reggie Marinelli addresses the media this afternoon following a shooting at Evergreen High School. Behind her is Evergreen Fire Chief Mike Weege.
Parents are being asked to go to Bergen Meadow Elementary School at 1928 Hiwan Drive to reunify with their students.
Outside the school on Wednesday afternoon, a long line of parents waited to be reunited with their students.
Kevin J. Beaty/DenveriteSchool buses line up, heading towards Evergreen High School after a shooting was reported there. Sept. 10, 2025.
The Jefferson County Education Association, a teachers’ union in the district, said in a statement that every time a school shooting happens, it retraumatizes the community that lived through the Columbine shooting in 1999.
“Colorado has lived through this pain too many times. We cannot become numb. We cannot accept this as normal. We demand that our leaders at every level — local, state, and national — take real, meaningful action to end the epidemic of gun violence in our schools,” the association’s leaders said in a statement.
All Jefferson County school athletics and activities for Wednesday were canceled.
CPR reporters Haylee May, Alejandro A. Alonso Galva, Yesenia Robles, Molly Cruse, Kevin Beaty, Ben Markus, Allison Sherry and Tony Gorman, as well as The Associated Press, contributed to this report.
Editor’s note: This story has been updated with more information about the victims and the alleged shooter.
Boeing Defense and the machinists union have reached a tentative deal to end a five-week-long strike in the St. Louis area, union officials announced on Wednesday.
A vote on Boeing’s five-year contract offer is scheduled for Friday, according to the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
IAM District 837’s roughly 3,200 members, who assemble Boeing fighter jets, went on strike on August 4 after voting 67% to reject the company’s last contract proposal.
“We’ve found a path forward on a five-year contract offer that grows wages by 45% on average,” Boeing Defense Vice President Dan Gillian said in a statement. “It remains the best deal we’ve ever offered to IAM 837, and we encourage our team to vote yes so we can get back to work building amazing products for our customers.”
The deal includes a 24% general wage increase over five years and a $4,000 ratification bonus, among other terms.
The previous offer was for four years and included a 20% wage increase and a $5,000 bonus. The deal would have raised compensation by 40% on average, according to the company.
“They didn’t really offer more, they just extended it another year,” said IAM member Brandon Thiel, who works on the F-15 program.
Thiel said he did not know how he will vote, but “I have a strong inclination that it will not pass.”
His raises during his seven years at Boeing have been almost entirely offset by rising living costs, he said.
“We just want to be comfortable, to not stress out on a daily basis,” he said.
A seven-week strike by IAM District 751 members in Washington and Oregon ended with a contract that included a 38% wage increase and a $12,000 signing bonus.
Contract negotiations with a federal mediator ended Tuesday afternoon without any progress. Boeing and the IAM resumed discussion later that day, which continued into Wednesday and led to the latest proposal, he said.
If the contract is approved, workers would start returning Monday evening, and production would be back to normal in about a week, Gillian told reporters on Wednesday.
Non-union employees have kept production going during the strike, though output has slowed on some programs, he said last week.
Boeing’s offer assures workers another year of raises, even for employees already at the top of the pay scale, Gillian said. “So, I feel good about the offer.”
FIFA responded to New York mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani’s campaign to get soccer’s global governing body to drop its plan for dynamic pricing for next year’s World Cup, jointly being hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico.
The Democrat socialist launched a petition Tuesday night that he called “Game Over Greed” and demanded FIFA not use the pricing model, cap resale ticket prices and put aside 15 percent of tickets at a discounted rate for local residents.
In a statement provided to The Post on Wednesday, a FIFA spokesperson defended dynamic pricing as a “developing market practice” and said that it would be setting aside tickets for “specific fan categories” that will be at a “fixed price.”
Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani wants FIFA to change the dynamic pricing model for the 2026 World Cup. Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Post
“The pricing model adopted generally reflects the existing and developing market practice in our co-hosts for major entertainment and sporting events on a daily basis, soccer included,” the spokesperson said. “We are focused on ensuring fair access to our game for existing but also prospective fans, and are offering group stage tickets starting at $60, a very competitive price point for a major global sporting event in the U.S.”
In a video posted to social media on Tuesday night, Mamdani expressed concerns that tickets to World Cup matches — in particular ones taking place at MetLife Stadium — would be resold at an exorbitant rate on an official FIFA-run secondary market ticket platform.
And the mayoral frontrunner accused FIFA of using the World Cup as “opportunities for profit, as opposed to opportunities to extend this to the people who make this game so special” during a press conference at St. James Park in The Bronx on Wednesday.
The 33-year-old state assemblyman representing Queens said the petition has already drawn thousands of signatures after it went live on his campaign website Tuesday night.
The FIFA World Cup is taking place next summer in North America. REUTERS
Wednesday marked the start of the ticket pre-sale signup window for the 2026 World Cup, which will have eight matches, including the final, take place at MetLife Stadium next summer.
FIFA confirmed earlier this month that it would be using dynamic pricing for the 2026 World Cup, with the cheapest ticket prices for the group stage starting at $60 and reaching up to $6,730 for the priciest ticket for the final, which MetLife Stadium is hosting.
Soccer’s governing body is expected to rake in $3 billion from ticket sales from the 2026 World Cup, The Athletic reported.
The spokesperson for FIFA insisted that the official resale platform allowed fans a “safe and secure method” to sell and buy tickets within the bounds of U.S. law.
NYC Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani holds a press conference on a soccer field in the Bronx to discuss the up coming World Cup games which will be hosted by city. Matthew McDermott
They also described it as “necessary to have a ticketing model that reflects our responsibility to provide access to fans, while at the same time ensuring as much value as possible is retained for redistribution into the game globally.”
“It is important to note, as a not-for-profit organization, the revenue FIFA generates from the World Cup is reinvested to fuel the growth of the game (men, women, youth) throughout FIFA’s 211 member associations globally,” the spokesperson continued. “As a matter of fact, FIFA expects to reinvest more than 90 percent of its budgeted investments for the cycle 2023-2026 back in the game to significantly boost global football development.
“Without FIFA’s financial support more than 50 percent of FIFA’s Member Associations could not operate.”
