Horrific Footage of Hamas Atrocities Revealed by IDF Shakes Global Media - The Media Line (2024)

Warning: Graphic images. Israeli military shares harrowing 45-minute film to international journalists showcasing explicit acts of terrorism on civilians, in an effort to dispel any hint of moral equivalence between the IDF and Hamas.

Captured on the home surveillance cam, a father with his two sons—both sons appearing under 10 years old—run frantically out of the house and into a shelter. The three of them are in nothing but boxer shorts. They had just risen out of bed and had no time to get dressed amid the chaos that had awoken them. As they run, they stumble through their panic. The father picks up his younger son to reach the shelter more quickly.

It’s no use. … A Hamas terrorist enters the frame and throws a grenade into their shelter.

An explosion of dust and spark light erupts from inside. … The father drops dead to the ground. The two young boys, shell-shocked and bleeding, exit the structure that was supposed to shield them from harm. The terrorist who killed their father intercepts them and ferries them back to the house.

While inside the kitchenette, the older brother flits between traumatic cries for death, collapsing to the floor and holding his head, and trying to care for his younger sibling who says he can no longer see from one eye. The children call out through thick tears for their father, for their mother. Their terrorist tormentor opens the fridge for a drink of water—ignoring their cries.

The cold-blooded murder of a family in their own home, under the Saturday morning sun, apparently makes for thirsty work.

Eventually, the terrorist leaves the boys alone for reasons unexplained, and the boys make a run for it. Their fate—whether they escaped, are now dead, or are being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza—is not confirmed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

Moments later, the video cuts to the boys’ mom coming home with the community security members only to find her dead husband at the entrance to the shelter. She collapses from grief and is carried away by her companions.

This is just one scene out of dozens in a nearly 45-minute supercut of the Hamas terror group’s atrocities against Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, 2023. Over 100 members of the international media—French, British, American, Australian, Indian, Argentinian—were all invited by the Israeli Government Press Office and the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit for the screening.

“For days, we thought long and hard about whether or not to show this footage,” said the head of the IDF Spokesperson Unit, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari. But in the end, according to Hagari, the decision was made to expose the brutal imagery to finally dispel any hint of moral equivalence between the Israeli people’s army and the Hamas-ISIS terrorists.

Saying [Hamas] is ISIS is not some branding trick. … They’re indoctrinated to commit crimes against humanity.

“Saying [Hamas] is ISIS is not some branding trick,” Hagari continued. “Hamas is a sovereign entity that decided to commit this crime against humanity … to rape, to kill indiscriminately, to behead people. And yes … also babies. And they did this with complete understanding of what they were doing and what will happen afterward in Gaza as a consequence. They’re indoctrinated to commit crimes against humanity—and it’s not just Israel’s problem.”

In another disturbing clip from the film—a cynically poetic example of Hagari’s point—a terrorist can be heard calling his parents on his victim’s cellphone. The phone recorded the call as he boasts to his mother and father in Gaza.

I killed at least 10 Jews with my bare hands. … Aren’t you proud of me?

In the background, viewers can hear “Allahu akbar,” “God is great” and “Kill, kill, kill.” “Aren’t you proud of me?” he asks again with elation.

“I’m a hero! Your son is a hero,” he tells them. “Check your WhatsApp!” The terrorist had sent pictures of his horrific deeds and repeatedly asked his parents to open their text chat so they could see. “I killed them. … I killed at least 10 Jews with my bare hands.”

The terrorist’s parents, crying tears of enthusiastic support for their son, tell him to come home safe. They do not denounce or scold him, but they fear for his safety ahead of an expected Israeli retaliation. “Return?” he responds. “No. Either victory or martyrdom.”

Reacting to the screening, members of the hundred or so international media personnel had mixed feelings. Some took a more clinical approach to what they were seeing … removing themselves from the atrocities presented and trying to stay analytically objective. Others could not stand to stay in the theater. Gasps repeated in unison throughout the showing.

Danish journalist Jotam Confino, who later appeared on Piers Morgan Uncensored, described Hamas’ actions as “ISIS on steroids. … The atrocities we know happened and saw evidence of by listening to eyewitnesses and seeing the scenes were now shown to us in a screening of 45 minutes of raw materials.” Later, he tells Morgan, “I would like to explain what I saw—but I don’t want to scare people off.” To Morgan’s credit, he replied, “You should tell me what you saw. We’re called uncensored for a reason, and I don’t think this should be censored.”

Confino went on to list the horrors and crimes against humanity that are listed in this article, adding, “I had to leave after 35 minutes because I’d seen enough. I knew this had happened, but because of the severe backlash—especially on social media by people who refuse to believe this had taken place despite overwhelming evidence—I felt I had to go [to the theater] so I could tell people that I saw it with my own eyes. So, if they don’t believe the eyewitnesses, they can believe me.”

France’s Le Monde reporter Samuel Forey tells The Media Line that he takes a detached position when viewing such materials and tries not to compare terror groups.

“Of course, it was horrible, and we were watching a horrible scene,” he says. “But I watched as a professional looking for information. Who did what, where, how, why, and when? That’s usually how I react. I’ve been covering massacres, wars, even genocide [for a long time]. So, it’s not that I’m used to these things, but I work on them like a doctor would work on a body.”

“As for [my] feelings,” Forey continued, “it was clear to me that Hamas wanted to instigate terror and fear from what they’d done. And it was clear they wanted to kill as much as they could.”

Imagine the same protests in reaction to the atrocities ISIS committed against the Kurdish and Yazidi people

Dr. Qanta Ahmed, a Muslim scholar, physician, and senior fellow with the Independent Women’s Forum, took a different approach. As I sat next to her during the screening, it was obvious to me that she was repulsed by Hamas’ barbarity. And later, speaking with host Laura Ingraham on Fox News, she took aim at both the Gaza-based terror group and its supporters abroad.

“It’s utterly devastating,” Ahmed says. “Imagine the same protests in reaction to the atrocities ISIS committed against the Kurdish and Yazidi people. I understand the politics related to Palestine. But what Hamas has perpetrated is a crime against humanity. … Genocide has been committed.”

Ahmed then goes on to condemn Hamas for bastardizing Islam in order to commit these crimes, and she calls on the Muslim world to join her. “We cannot tolerate any civilized nation living next to this monster … which is ISIS on steroids, financed with millions of dollars,” she adds.

[Providing] any legitimacy to Hamas is fundamentally immoral, irrespective of anyone’s politics or nationality

“[Providing] any legitimacy to Hamas is fundamentally immoral, irrespective of anyone’s politics or nationality,” says Ahmed. “There is an urgent need from Muslim leaders—that means [Egyptian] President Sisi, King Abdullah II of Jordan, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia—to see the footage and the atrocity … to see the dehumanization of man, woman, child, elderly, infant; in the name of Hamas that dares use my religion to prosecute its genocide.”

Other scenes from the film reveal a pile of bodies in a garbage skiff, burned to a crisp in a makeshift mass grave. A terrorist repeatedly screams “Allahu akbar!” as he works himself to exhaustion—beheading a Thai agriculture worker with a garden hoe and filming it on his cellphone.

The film also shows a group of youths running through a field near the Nova rave party as Hamas terrorists fire upon them with automatic weapons. Then there’s a river of blood—evidence of bodies dragged through a home’s hallways.

There are also dead dogs that were shot and left to rot with their owners. A group of young girls huddled together in fear as grenades erupted outside—and inside—their safe room. Women and children shot dead in their hiding places. Beheaded soldiers get paraded through the streets of Gaza to celebratory masses. A half-naked girl lying face down and battered in the back of a pickup truck. A bloodied and beaten young woman is dragged by her hair into a car—blood stains drip from her crotch.

Terrorists are seen pulling civilian corpses from their cars and looting their belongings. Hamas gunmen are shown repeatedly shooting already-dead bodies in the face. Smoldering and completely unrecognizable civilians burned alive in their cars, on the streets, in their homes, their hands bound. Babies, no older than a few months, bloodied and missing limbs or eyes.

These are just some of the images left behind in Hamas’ wake, revealed by the IDF to the press. The IDF deemed these images too disturbing to publish, although many are still up on social media.

After the screening, former IDF Gaza Division Commander Maj. Gen. Mickey Edelstein incredulously remarked that he “was shocked to see that some [news] channels tried to compare what Israel was doing [in Gaza] to the vile [Hamas] terrorists. … ‘Is it equal?’ I cannot understand the comparison between Israel and Hamas. This is irresponsible. You can see how vile Hamas is. We share this so that you can see there’s no comparison [between the IDF and Hamas].”

Israel is fighting in Gaza, now … and we ask all the civilians to evacuate. Immediately.

Edelstein added, “Israel is fighting in Gaza, now … and we ask all the civilians to evacuate. Immediately. Some critics of Israel say, ‘Yes, but there are civilian casualties,’ but nothing [compares]! We are not looking for kids to kill. We are not looking for elderly people or Holocaust survivors to take or to kill because they’re not walking fast enough back into Gaza. We do not take a child to coax his neighbors to come out … just so we can then kill his family and his neighbors.” This exact scene was in Hamas’ footage online.

Asked to confirm footage of sexual violence and a Hamas terrorist’s film depicting young girls earmarked for sexual slavery, Edelstein answered The Media Line in the affirmative, saying, “We have evidence of this, but we cannot share it.” He also confirmed that hundreds of Gazans poured into these communities after Hamas terror cells to loot, rape, and capture Israelis for themselves. “The fact that they are not wearing uniforms does not mean they’re not terrorists,” he added.

The 45-minute snuff film, which the IDF titled “Hamas Massacre—Collected Raw Footage, Oct. 7, 2023,” included a combination of Hamas’ GoPro body cameras, dashcams from terrorists’ and civilians’ cars, closed-circuit television, cellphone footage, and more. The footage was also compiled in such a way as to show many of the same acts from different points of view.

It was mayhem by design. Hamas terror cells attacked in parallel around 30 locations, according to the IDF. The terrorists were well-armed, practiced, strictly organized, and operating under orders regarding “how to kill, how many to kill, how many to take as hostage. Orders were there to rape … All was written for them,” said Edelstein.

“We found written orders in manuals [on Hamas terrorists who were killed], but we also captured some terrorists alive, and they told us. They were ordered that morning to kill families, to take hostages in order to make it more painful [for Israel].”

Outside the event hall, the head of the IDF Arabic Desk and commander of the Arabic Spokespersons Unit, Maj. Ella Waweya, condemned Hamas’ barbarity as an affront to humanity and religion itself.

“What happened on October 7 was murder. Terror. Hamas-ISIS actions are not Islam. It wasn’t human and it wasn’t religious,” said Waweya. “And now, I’m calling on anyone with a heart, people who are of every faith, to look at the pictures themselves. See the murders and the truth for yourselves.”

Waweya continued to condemn Hamas for their crimes against humanity in Gaza as well. She explained that “when [the IDF] goes to hit terrorists, we warn citizens of Gaza. We tell them to ‘head south,’ because we don’t want to hurt them,” as opposed to Hamas, which uses citizens as human shields. “[Gazans] suffer from Hamas as well. They tell me ‘Hamas is blocking us. They won’t let us leave the area you told us to evacuate.’ The citizens of Gaza are too afraid to speak up publicly. Hamas will hurt and murder them, too,” she added.

If you fight for humanity … if you’re looking for humanity, you must stand with Israel

“This was a sad, sad movie,” Edelstein concluded. “If you fight for humanity … you must stand with Israel.”