This article contains descriptions of violence which some readers may find distressing.
The Israeli military held a screening for journalists on Monday of raw footage recovered from Hamas body cameras, in an effort to remind the world of the brutality of the attack on Israel two weeks ago.
The bodycam footage, cut together with clips from CCTV, dashboard cameras and the mobile phones of both Hamas gunmen and victims, showed in stark detail the sheer horror visited on a music festival and family neighbourhoods in southern Israel.
The Israeli military also released documents which they said were recovered from dead Hamas members, containing detailed operational planning and instructions for attacking the neighbourhoods and taking hostages.
The 43 minutes of footage screened in Tel Aviv on Monday was distilled from hundreds of hours of footage collected since the attack, the Israeli military said. It contained clips of Hamas gunmen cheering with apparent joy as they shot civilians on the road, and later stalking the pathways of kibbutzim and killing parents and children in their homes.
What about them? Would any of them occur, if the 7th October attack never happened? Doubt.
What about the Nakba which created the conditions that caused the October 7 attack?
So you don’t deny the massacre on civilians, like that Hamas leader did? You think this was warranted?
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I don’t deny that the attack occurred. But I don’t have the right to judge how an ethnic group decides to resist their oppressors. Was it warranted? Ask a Palestinian.