The film shows the horrors of the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks

• The Embassy of Israel in Washington DC invited a small group of journalists and religious leaders to relive the October 7 terrorist attacks in Israel through a compilation of images collected by the Israeli military.
• The 46-minute film showed a variety of atrocities from members of the Israeli army being beheaded, bodies of children being burned and a video of terrorists dragging hostages into Gaza while clapping and praising Allah.
• “Let history be my witness that this was the first man I killed. The first. A Jew,” shouted one terrorist.

WASHINGTON DC — For 46 minutes, a small group of reporters, including the Daily Caller News Foundation, got an unvarnished view of the horrors Hamas terrorists unleashed on Israeli civilians on Oct. 7. The compilation of videos and photos of the carnage left many in the room in tears or gasping in silence.

The Israeli Embassy in Washington DC hosted a screening on Monday showing a movie composed of footage from body cameras, CCTV cameras, social media videos and audio recordings that captured a small part of the terrorist attack unleashed in the Jewish state. Embassy officials told reporters not to film or record during the screening out of respect for the victims’ families, as many had not seen the footage.

The film opened with Hamas terrorists shooting Israelis in their cars before dragging their bodies and going through their belongings. A terrorist cheered as he ran filming all the bodies on the side of the road, kicking several in the head.

The first sign of distress from the screening audience, many of whom included local and national religious leaders, came after a terrorist took a garden hoe and repeatedly hacked at a man’s neck while he was still alive until that they removed his head from his body. A later clip showed a terrorist playing with the burnt and severed head of another victim.

A recorded call between Hamas officials revealed that they ordered the terrorists to return the body of a dead Israeli soldier to Gaza so “people can play with it,” according to the film.

Eliav Benjamin, the deputy chief of mission at the Israeli embassy, ​​told attendees that the images were intended to make a person feel sick and rejected. He argued that Israel’s war with Hamas was not a religious crusade, but a struggle for civilization.

“Israel should not apologize for anything they are doing,” Benjamin said. “This is not a religious war … It is a war against those who do not believe in civilization.”

The footage showed 138 victims killed by Hamas, less than 10% of the total killed that day, according to the film. It showed images of babies with battered heads, a boy whose head appeared to have been removed and his body set on fire, and a girl in a Mickey Mouse nightgown who had been riddled with bullets.

One of the most graphic parts of the film is when a father pulls his two sons, both pre-teens, out of their beds and drags them to the air raid shelter outside the house in only their underwear. Hamas terrorists entered the courtyard and threw a grenade into the shelter, killing the father, who fell to the ground.

His children came out with blood on their backs and legs, some from their own and some from their parents. The terrorists dragged them into the house, where one of the boys cried for his father while a Hamas fighter rummaged through a refrigerator.

“Abba [father]Abba [father]”, cried the youngest boy. “He’s dead!”

His brother tried to help him clear the shrapnel from his back, saying, “Yeah, he’s dead… I think we’re going to die.”

The film also captured a different aspect, but horrible, interaction between a father and his son, a Hamas terrorist. The son called his father and told him to check WhatsApp to “see how many I killed with my bare hands, father. Your son killed the Jews.”

“Father, I am speaking from the phone of a Jewish woman. I killed her and her husband with my bare hands…look at WhatsApp, look how I killed them,” the son said, as his father repeatedly responded by saying “Allah is great”.

The son then asked to speak to his mother, who could be heard crying in the background.

“Mom, your son is a hero,” the terrorist said.

The film also contained footage of the Nova music festival, showing hundreds of burned cars, many with their passengers still inside. In one field, several severely burned bodies were frozen in the fetal position or crawling as they tried to escape the terrorists.

Several minutes of the footage showed a young woman with her pants and underwear removed and her legs contorted into an unnatural position. The footage was recorded on the phone of a family member, who could be heard crying in the background. First responders at the festival frantically searched for any survivors, shouting “Is anyone alive? Give us a sign of life!”

Most of those in attendance had their faces covered, many were openly weeping when the film ended, while others sat in silence stunned by what they saw. One man fell to the ground and wept as a pastor led the rest in prayer about the victims and Israel.

Many of the photos and videos in the film showed Israelis killed in their beds and in their kitchens early that Saturday morning. Embassy officials reiterated to the audience that they are showing the footage to give the world a chance to see how these families’ Saturday day began and ended in terror.

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