Israeli authorities showed members of the international media private footage of the Hamas Terrorist Attacks on October 7th, much of it taken from Hamas bodycams.
Some of the accounts journalists offered after the video briefing:
- Parents being executed in front of children.
- Tortured children begging to be killed while Hamas Militants loot homes.
- Throwing grenades into bomb shelters filled with parents and children.
- Hamas militants using phones of dead civilians to call and mock loved ones.
- Hamas militants mocking children they are hunting before murdering them.
- Israeli civilians and soldiers beheaded and bodies being desecrated.
- Pictures of small children burned beyond recognition.
- Pictures of blood stained baby corpses.
Hamas Spokesperson Ghazi Hamad who previously stated no civilians were killed, has stated again that Hamas doesn't target civilians and apparently found it difficult to justify the civilian losses.
The Bedouin Bus Driver Yussuf al-Ziadana who rescued around thirty young people under danger of being massacred or abducted by Hamas militants at the music festival, visited the President of Israel, Isaac Herzog.
Palestinian Human Rights Groups Report several hundred, maybe under 1500 Gazan Palestinians, have been arrested by Israeli authorities since the October 7th Terrorist Attacks. Local organizations have argued they have been subject to abuse by Israeli authoroties. In the wake of the Terrorist Attacks, 18,500 Palestinian Gazans who had permits to work in Israel had their work permits revoked and thus became illegal aliens if they were in Israel.
Israel has so far refused to release information about Gaza workers who have disappeared, human rights groups say.
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Hamas stated in Russian media that they consider all of the hostages they have taken to be Israeli, apparently regardless of citizenship status since many are dual citizens.
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