Greta Thunberg has been blasted as an embarrassment after she tried to highlight the “suffering” of Palestinian prisoners in a social media post — but used a harrowing photo of an emaciated Israeli hostage who was forced to dig his own grave.
The showboating climate activist had included a skeletal image of the hostage, Evyatar David, in an Instagram post on Monday about the alleged mistreatment of Palestinians in Israeli prisons.
Greta Thunberg speaks after arriving at Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport in Athens, Greece, on Oct. 6, 2025. Getty Images
Emaciated Israeli hostage Evyatar David crosses out dates on a calendar while in Hamas captivity in an undated video. Al-Qassam Brigade Footage“The suffering of Palestinian prisoners is not a matter of opinion — it is a fact of cruelty and dehumanization. Humanity cannot be selective. Justice cannot have borders,” read the post, which was made in collaboration with a slew of other activists.
Israeli hostage Evyatar David in a Hamas propaganda video. Al-Qassam Brigade FootageThe photo, however, had actually come from a sick propaganda video Hamas put out in August that shockingly showed a 24-year-old David digging his own grave in captivity.
The hostage’s sister, Yeela David, immediately went scorched earth on Thunberg and her fellow anti-Israel activists over the major blunder.
Activist Greta Thunberg at an unknown location on October 3, 2025. via REUTERS
“You should make a research before you post things you don’t understand about. In the 6th slide you put a photo of an Israeli Hostage who Hamas starved on purpose. This is Evyatar David,” she commented.
“Every minute you are not deleting the post, you are becoming a bigger joke.”
The sickening images of David sparked global condemnation when they emerged in the Hamas propaganda video — with the Israeli Foreign Ministry and the Consulate General of Israel in New York even blasting the images on a Times Square billboard to raise awareness of his plight.
Activist Greta Thunberg, speaking here on October 6, 2025, in Greece, was slammed over her recent post on Palestinian suffering. Aristidis Vafeiadakis/ZUMA / SplashNews.com“Hamas terrorists deliberately starve our hostages, documenting them in a cynical, humiliating, and malicious manner,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu raged at the time.
The appalling clip captured David crossing off dates on a calendar as he detailed when he last ate, as well as digging the grave.
“This is the grave I think I’m going to be buried in. Time is running out,” he could be heard saying.
Greta Thunberg’s social media post with Evyatar David falsely described as a Palestinian prisoner. @gretathunberg/InstagramDavid’s photo, which was among a handful included in the post shared by Thunberg ahead of the second anniversary of the Hamas terror attack, was later quietly deleted.
Thunberg has yet to address the glaring error.
It comes as the Swedish activist and hundreds of others were detained and expelled from Israel on Monday after the Global Sumud Flotilla they were on was intercepted trying to reach Gaza.
Galia David, mother of Israeli hostage Evyatar David, holds a picture of her son during a press conference organized by the Geneva Association of United Nations Correspondents. APThunberg later alleged that she and other detainees of the Gaza flotilla were subjected to torture in the Israeli prison where they were held.
“Personally, I don’t want to share what I was subjected to because I don’t want it to make headlines and ‘Greta has been tortured,’ because that’s not the story here,” she told a news conference when pressed on her claims.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry has repeatedly denied mistreating detainees.
