Israeli army releases footage of Hamas October 7 attack

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00:00 Yeah, very, very difficult to watch, as you can imagine.

00:03 The Israeli army invited journalists

00:05 to a screening of raw footage of those massacres carried out

00:09 on October the 7th.

00:11 They put together a 45-minute video compiled

00:14 from hundreds of hours, they said, of footage

00:17 from dash cams, body cams worn by members of Hamas,

00:21 body cams from first responders, mobile phone footage.

00:24 And very, very distressing images, indeed.

00:28 I think one piece of footage that really marked people

00:31 sitting and watching in the auditorium

00:34 showed a father running and carrying his two sons

00:38 in a kibbutz to a shelter.

00:40 And then the father was killed.

00:46 The two sons run back to the kitchen.

00:50 And you can hear them screaming in the kitchen,

00:52 on the footage, asking why they're alive,

00:56 where is their mom, where is their dad.

00:59 And in the meantime, their father's killer

01:01 is stood next to them, helping himself

01:03 to drinks from the fridge.

01:05 So very, very surreal, very awful scenes.

01:10 We were also shown audio, an audio recording

01:13 of a member of Hamas using a phone,

01:17 the phone of a dead Jewish woman,

01:18 to call his parents in the Gaza Strip

01:22 to boast about how many people he'd killed.

01:26 So a lot of loud gasps in the auditorium, crying,

01:30 and a lot of people just simply unable to watch.

01:33 As you say, difficult for you to watch that footage, Andrew.

01:38 I'm interested, though, why you think

01:40 the Israeli army decided to show journalists

01:43 like yourself these videos.

01:44 It's a good question.

01:49 I mean, the Israeli army spokesperson, Daniel Hagari,

01:53 he spoke just before showing the footage.

01:56 He said that he wanted to show people who they were fighting.

02:02 He said that after October 7th, something had changed.

02:04 The nature of the enemy had changed.

02:07 But in a nutshell, this is really about, I think,

02:09 the battle for public opinion, not here in Israel, of course,

02:12 but around the world.

02:14 It's been two weeks since those massacres.

02:17 And since then, of course, Israel

02:19 has responded with heavy bombardments in the Gaza Strip.

02:22 We've seen and heard of Palestinian civilians,

02:26 innocent Palestinian civilians, being killed, of course.

02:29 We've seen and heard the pictures and the testimony.

02:31 But I think Israel wants us not to forget, of course,

02:34 what they suffered, too, on October 7th,

02:37 with the horrific scenes that we saw once again today.

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