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The Israeli military held a screening for journalists on Monday of raw footage recovered from Hamas body cameras, in an effort to remind the world of the brutality of the attack on Israel two weeks ago.

The bodycam footage, cut together with clips from CCTV, dashboard cameras and the mobile phones of both Hamas gunmen and victims, showed in stark detail the sheer horror visited on a music festival and family neighbourhoods in southern Israel.

The Israeli military also released documents which they said were recovered from dead Hamas members, containing detailed operational planning and instructions for attacking the neighbourhoods and taking hostages.

The 43 minutes of footage screened in Tel Aviv on Monday was distilled from hundreds of hours of footage collected since the attack, the Israeli military said. It contained clips of Hamas gunmen cheering with apparent joy as they shot civilians on the road, and later stalking the pathways of kibbutzim and killing parents and children in their homes.

  • Deestan@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Whatabout acknowledging how utterly inhuman that attack was, and that it happened, without worrying about it overshadowing other war crimes you want to bring to light?

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      You are sooooooo very close to understanding the very root of the problem, you can almost see it from where you are

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        8 months ago

        Stop competing weirdly for a moment. Please. You can hold Israel accountable for their shit even if you denounce other atrocities.

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      8 months ago

      Or, and I know this is a shock, understand this is another new piece of the puzzle in a fucked up conflict. Whataboutism does nothing.

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    One has to wonder what type of person finds this sufficient justification for the more than 2000 Palestinian children the IDF has killed so far just this past week.

    One also has to wonder what type of person is in the Iraeli propaganda services when they seem to think more people will be swayed to “side with Israel” if they repeatedly push this kind of thing out at this point in light of what the Israelis are curently doing with no expectation of them stopping.

    Makes me think of the psychological mechanism of Projection and how those who have a monstrous mindset presume that others are driven by a similar mindset.

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      8 months ago

      Indeed, what kind of mindset starts all this knowing retribution will be high. Probably mind that doesn’t care about people’s lives.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    The Israeli military held a screening for journalists on Monday of raw footage recovered from Hamas body cameras, in an effort to remind the world of the brutality of the attack on Israel two weeks ago.

    The bodycam footage, cut together with clips from CCTV, dashboard cameras and the mobile phones of both Hamas gunmen and victims, showed in stark detail the sheer horror visited on a music festival and family neighbourhoods in southern Israel.

    It contained clips of Hamas gunmen cheering with apparent joy as they shot civilians on the road, and later stalking the pathways of kibbutzim and killing parents and children in their homes.

    After the two boys, bloodied and in shock, had staggered back into their home screaming, a Hamas gunman calmly entered and looked through the fridge in front of them, pausing to take a drink before walking out again.

    The film also contained an audio recording of one of the Hamas gunmen calling home to his parents in Gaza from the phone of a victim to boast that he had “killed at least 10 Jews with my bare hands”.

    Another sequence showed one Hamas gunman shooting the apparently dead bodies of civilians inside a kibbutz in a celebratory manner, and an attempt to decapitate someone who appeared to be still alive using a garden hoe.


    The original article contains 998 words, the summary contains 221 words. Saved 78%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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    8 months ago

    There is no published footage of the compilation available online. There were no cameras allowed inside the conference.

    Many of the videos mentioned are publically available for the morbidly curious.

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        I know you’re citing the United Nations as an authority, and providing a link is definitely welcome, but the site you’re linking literally says

        The number of people killed in Gaza has reached 5,087 according to latest reports from de facto authorities there

        thereby acknowledging that even the UN is merely repeating the numbers that Hamas is giving them.

        Could we maybe agree that blindly accepting whatever Hamas is saying as truth is not the best policy?

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        The number of people killed in Gaza has reached 5,087 according to latest reports from de facto authorities there

        By de facto authorities they mean Hamas.

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      8 months ago

      What about them? Would any of them occur, if the 7th October attack never happened? Doubt.

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            I don’t deny that the attack occurred. But I don’t have the right to judge how an ethnic group decides to resist their oppressors. Was it warranted? Ask a Palestinian.

            I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites. -Nelson Mandela

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    8 months ago

    What about the body cam videos of Israeli troops shooting teenagers throwing rocks?

    Not so eager to show that off, eh?

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    “Your son killed so many Jews,” he said. “Mum, your son is a hero.”

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      This post comment is a rule 6 violation, Specifically spam, repost, low effort and trolling. It has been posted no fewer than 3 times in the last 24 hours and fits a repeated pattern of abuse of the community guidelines.

      edit: wording