Two weeks after the attacks, Israel invited more than a hundred foreign media journalists to a military base north of Tel Aviv on Monday. He showed them a 43-minute, 44-second audio-visual production compiling images taken on October 7 by GoPro cameras carried by Hamas members, security from the destroyed kibbutz, traffic surveillance and recorded videos on their mobile phones. victims, soldiers and medical personnel.

Vivid horror, rivers of blood, dozens of charred bodies and a beheaded soldier appear in a collection of audiovisual footage, much of it unpublished, that the Israeli army showed this Monday in what Israeli authorities say is intended to publicize the “crimes.” against humanity” as the country comes under international criticism for the intense bombings that were carried out in retaliation for the attack it has carried out since October 7 on the streets of Gaza and which brought the death toll to more than 5,000 this Monday.

“What you see in the images are crimes against humanity,” Israeli army spokesman Admiral Daniel Hagari warned before viewing. “They show that Hamas terrorists entered Israel with the sole purpose of killing civilians,” he stressed in statements collected by Efe.

One of the hardest scenes to watch, and one that caused a lot of excitement among the reporters in the room, was the scene in which he sees a father with two children, about 12 and 10 years old, just woken up and still in their underwear, going out to take shelter in a bunker in their yard at home in one of the kibbutzim closest to the Gaza Strip when they hear gunshots and explosions.

Attack on a family on a kibbutz

Two heavily armed Hamas members are seen entering the bunker and throwing a grenade. The father acts as a human shield protecting his children. They come out in tears, a Hamas member takes them into the house and offers them water and Coca-Cola from his own refrigerator, and the children cry and scream in a state of shock.

“Why am I alive? Why am I alive?” – the elder sobs, trying to console his brother, who says that he cannot see with his eyes. The shocking scene combines what was captured on security cameras inside the house and surveillance cameras on the patio.

A few minutes later, the mother is seen arriving with two kibbutz guards and discovering a body at the door of the shelter, destroyed by the father’s grenade. Without sound, her quiet cry of pain goes off screen, and we immediately see the guards trying to calm her down, covering her mouth so as not to hear, and leading her to safety.

That’s where the episode ends, but there are dozens of other clips of other attacks on houses in the kibbutz adjacent to the enclave, or the massacre at the electronic music festival in Reim: many hid in portable toilets or under cars, while Hamas gunmen mercilessly shot them while watching. so that they don’t leave alive.

Most of the images were taken by cameras worn by about 1,500 Hamas members who died in subsequent battles with Israeli forces after being vetted by authorities.

The most brutal passages are extracted from here: the video shows how they kill a young woman hiding under a table and begging not to kill her, or how they crush the head of a dying man with a hoe, shouting in Arabic “Allahu Akbar” (God is great).

Hamas militant calls his parents

A Hamas attacker can also be heard making a call to his parents in the Gaza Strip from the phone of one of his victims. “Look at the photos I sent you on WhatsApp. I killed ten people. There is Jewish blood on my hands. I hope you are proud of me,” he tells his parents, who, scared and crying, ask him to return. .

I killed ten. I have Jewish blood on my hands

An army spokesman acknowledged that they had faced a “dilemma” in recent days about whether to display and distribute the images, but said they were part of an internal process that Israel needs to “understand why it is at war.”

“This has nothing to do with the Palestinians or Islam, it is about not letting terror rule,” he said of the Islamist group Hamas, which has de facto ruled the Gaza Strip since 2007.

The attack, on Oct. 7, began a war between Israel and Islamist militias in the Gaza Strip that has left more than 1,400 people dead in Israel – most of them civilians killed that same day in the worst massacre in Israeli history. 222 people were kidnapped in the enclave, about a hundred went missing

Intense and indiscriminate Israeli retaliatory bombing in the Gaza Strip resulted in the deaths of more than 5,000 people (at least 70% women, children and the elderly) and injured more than 15,000. This is the largest human disaster, which also occurred in the punished enclave.