French MPs will watch a forty-minute film with images of unbearable violence.
Civilians are hunted and killed at close range, corpses of adults and children are tortured… Images of the massacres carried out by Hamas commandos on Israeli soil on October 7th must be shown to deputies of the French National Assembly this Tuesday.
According to Israeli authorities, this forty-minute film contains the following, edited from images taken either by the attackers or by the victims or rescuers.
The viewer is warned by text in the introduction that they are about to “take a look at what happened that day.” Or “the corpses of 138 people,” it says at the end of the film. On the screen the remains of men, women, children. Lying in thickets, living rooms, bathrooms. We also see babies with blurry faces in body bags.
“Why am I still alive?”
In a kibbutz, in images captured on a cellphone, one of the attackers grabs a garden tool at the neck of an injured civilian as if to decapitate him, amid shouts of encouragement from members of his command.
Another sequence shows a car in front of a gate of one of the kibbutzim that was attacked. Men shot several times at the driver, whose body convulsed. Attackers in green uniforms cross well-tended gardens between targeted houses.
Two small children in their underwear sobbing. Her father was killed by a grenade attack while protecting her, which was captured on a surveillance camera in the house. One of them says he can no longer see in one eye and is still crying for his father. “He’s dead. They killed him,” his brother replies. “Why am I still alive?” one of them asks.
“I killed ten of them with my bare hands”
Other videos show the attack on a techno festival that took place a few kilometers from the Gaza Strip, in which more than 270 people were killed. We see the execution of an injured man, filmed by a surveillance camera. In a snack bar, the floor between the refrigerators and the taps is covered in corpses.
In another video, a young Israeli woman is pulled out of the trunk of a jeep by her hair. The back of his pants is stained with blood. She is then violently pushed into the vehicle, which drives away with a bang.
In one of the sounds played during the film, a man calls his father from the phone of a woman who he says “just killed her with her husband.”
“Ten, Dad, I killed ten of them with my bare hands, with my bare hands,” he screams. “Allahu Akbar” (God is the greatest, in Arabic), his father responds.
Screenings in around thirty countries
Israel claims to have collected hundreds of hours of footage of these attacks. According to Israeli diplomacy, the film was edited using clips from the body cameras and cell phones of some of the hundreds of killed or captured Palestinian fighters from the Islamist movement Hamas, from Hamas social media, and the phones of victims and rescuers.
According to a spokesman for the Israeli embassy in Paris, screenings have already taken place in Israel, at the United Nations and in around thirty countries. According to the latest official Israeli figures, the Hamas attack claimed around 1,200 lives on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, who were killed on October 7th.
The Israeli military further estimates that around 240 people were taken hostage in the Gaza Strip during the first Hamas attack.
According to the Hamas Ministry of Health, incessant Israeli bombings in the Gaza Strip since October 7 have killed more than 11,000 people, mostly civilians, including more than 4,600 children. Israel announced on Monday that 44 soldiers have been killed in the Gaza Strip since Israeli military ground operations began in the area.