Last Saturday, the world witnessed yet another horrifying display of Hamas’s barbarity as three Israeli hostages — Eli Sharabi, Ohad Ben Ami and Or Levy — were released from captivity. Emaciated, pale and visibly broken, they emerged as shadows of their former selves.

The images of these men, paraded before the cameras by Hamas, were hauntingly reminiscent of Holocaust survivors. Their suffering was profound — starved, kept in cages in the dark, beaten and subjected to psychological torture. For Israel and its allies, this was a renewed wake-up call to the pure evil that Hamas represents.