‘Evil that defies words’ – Footage of Hamas atrocities screened in US Senate
40 senators watch film documenting horrors of Hamas invasion.
Susan Tawil, World Israel News
A bi-partisan gathering of 40 members of the U.S .Senate met on Tuesday to screen the now-notorious documentary of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel.
Where were the other 60 members of the Senate? 40 is a pretty weak showing.
The video was compiled by the Israel Defense Force (IDF) from security footage, body-cam evidence, and the social media postings of the terrorists, gathered from the massacre.
The graphic 47-minute video presents evidence of the atrocities on Israeli civilians committed during the surprise terror attack.
The film has been shown selectively to various groups, such as members of Knesset (Israeli Parliament), the British Parliament, hand-picked groups of journalists, and groups of Hollywood celebrities, among others.
It was viewed by about 150 members of the US House of Representatives two weeks ago (Nov 14).
Senators Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) arranged the screening for the Senate, together with Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Herzog.
Rosen, who is Jewish, released a statement in advance of the viewing, describing the Oct 7 attack by the Gaza Palestinians as “the worst terrorist attack in Israel’s history—the single deadliest day for the Jews since the Holocaust.”
Remember, the Holocaust was perpetrated by Hitler over several years. If Hamas had the opportunity that Hitler had, they would probably have outdone him in terms of the genocide of Jews.
She went on to explain the purpose of the screening: “Given the effort by some individuals and organizations around the world to distort and deny what happened that day, it was important that, as policymakers, we bear witness to the full extent of the atrocities committed by Hamas.”
She hoped that the video would convince the Senate to support a $14 billion emergency aid package to Israel.
On the early morning of Oct 7, thousands of Palestinian terrorists broke through Israel’s security fence and, in a well-planned, pre-meditated attack, invaded sleeping Israeli towns adjacent to the Gaza border, as well as a neighboring music festival.
There, they savagely murdered over 1,200 Israelis, most of them civilians.
The terrorists also raped, tortured, mutilated, and burned alive terrified border town residents and concert-goers with unspeakable cruelty.
Thousands of Israelis were wounded, and some 240 were taken hostage back to Gaza for use as bargaining chips and human shields.
The images revealed in the video are so brutal that they are difficult to watch. Many of the Senators were stunned into silence, and left the viewing pale and unable to comment to reporters waiting outside.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) commented to reporters later that day about the impact of watching the video. “It was jarring and harrowing,” he said. “It shook all of us up in the room. I had to go sit in my office for a half-hour alone after seeing it.”
Texas Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) told reporters: “There is a level of evil and hate and depravity that defies words, and it is astonishing that there are still some in America and across the globe who deny these atrocities occurred.”
Senator Rubio remarked on the importance of seeing the video in real-time, while Israel’s battle to eliminate the Hamas terror group is still raging: “I think it’s really important not to sanitize this over time,” he said. Aside from the raw carnage, what the Senator said stunned him the most was witnessing the jubilation of the perpetrators in their acts of evil: “the glee and the joy and the pride that the people involved in these horrifying crimes took in what they were doing.”
Viewing the IDF video reinforced the determination of Senator Thom Tillis (R, NC) to back Israel politically.
Posting on X after the screening, he wrote: “Today, my Senate colleagues and I watched footage of the devastation caused by Hamas’ horrific terrorist attack against Israel…What we saw was not for the faint-hearted. Hamas is pure evil and must be destroyed. Hamas has made it clear that they will stop at nothing to eliminate Israel and its people. As Israel’s longtime ally and friend, we must do everything we can to support its efforts to defend itself and destroy Hamas.”
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Hamas kept Israeli women in cages,
branded children with burning metal
Children were branded lest they escape, and girls were kept in cages.
By David Issac, JNS
Israeli hostages recovered from captivity in Gaza have largely kept out of the public eye, but accounts slowly reaching the press from their family members point to widespread abuse by Hamas.
Hostages report having been beaten, threatened with death, underfed, kept in cages, and denied medical care.
Elma Avraham, 84, who had health issues, was taken hostage from Kibbutz Nahal Oz on Oct. 7, the day of the Hamas attack. Although in generally good health when captured, she deteriorated in captivity.
Released on Nov. 26, she had a pulse of 40 and a body temperature of 82 degrees Fahrenheit.
“They held her in terrible conditions,” daughter Tali Amano said. “We stood at the entrance with a package of medications for her. My mother didn’t need to return this way and I have no idea how she will make it through these days.”
IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said, “She was denied life-saving medications. She was not visited by the Red Cross.”
Ditza Hayman, 84, who was kidnapped by Hamas from Kibbutz Nir Oz was similarly neglected.
“The kidnappers took my mother to the attic of an unfinished building inside Gaza. She was hidden there completely alone, without other hostages and was trapped inside the building,” her son, Gideon, told Channel 12.
“In the cold, without running water, electricity and with very little food. I will not go into detail about the hygiene that was there. Think about the worst possible—and then worse than that,” he said.
“Once or twice a day one of the kidnappers came to her, served her food and left. During all these days she did not receive any medical treatment, nor could she ask for it, because the kidnappers did not speak Hebrew or English,” he added.
Female hostages were kept in cages, the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, a group set up in the wake of the attack, revealed on Monday.
Children were branded lest they escape, according to Yaniv Yaakov, the uncle of the brothers Or, 16, and Yagil, 12, who were freed on Nov. 27.
“Every child that Hamas took was taken on a motorcycle, and they took each child and put their leg in front of the exhaust pipe, which caused a burn to mark the children so that in case they ran away or fled, they could find them,” he said.
A Thai hostage who was released told Israel’s Channel 12 that the Jewish captives were beaten with electric cables. Israeli hostages were treated worse than the others, he said.
Eitan Yahalomi, 12, a dual Israeli-French citizen, was released on Monday, 52 days after his abduction. His aunt, Deborah Cohen, told France’s BFM TV that he was forced to watch footage of the massacre.
“Every time a child cried there, they threatened them with a weapon to keep them quiet. Once they got to Gaza, all the civilians, everyone was hitting them. … We’re talking about a child 12 years old,” his aunt said.
“Maybe I was naïve, but I wanted to hope that they [Hamas] were treating him well,” she said. “I was wrong. They are monsters.”
Tom Hand, the father of Irish-Israeli Emily Hand, a 9-year-old who was among 13 Israeli hostages freed on Nov. 25, said she was shockingly pale, her face hollowed out and her head full of lice.
“The most shocking, disturbing part of meeting her was she was just whispering, you couldn’t hear her. I had to put my ear on her lips,” he told CNN on Tuesday. “She’d been conditioned not to make any noise.”
She learned after her return that her “second mom” had been killed by Hamas. (Her mother died of cancer when she was two.)
“Last night she cried until her face was red and blotchy, she couldn’t stop. She didn’t want any comfort, I guess she’s forgotten how to be comforted,” Hand said. “She went under the covers of the bed, the quilt, covered herself up and quietly cried.”
Emily believes she’d been gone a year.
Like the other hostages, she was poorly fed, given rice, water and pita bread. (“There were days when they barely had any food, in the last few days they only ate very little rice,” Merav Mor Munder, cousin of Keren Munder, 55, who was released on Nov. 24, told Israel’s Channel 12.)
Israel has demanded that Hamas allow the Red Cross access to the captives. “Hamas continues to deny the Red Cross access to the remaining 145 hostages in violation of every norm of humanity,” said Prime Minister’s Office spokesman Eylon Levy on Thursday.
“We’re talking about people who were brutally abducted into the Gaza Strip, some with horrific injuries. We’ve already seen hostages returning, some in critical condition, others held there without medication,” he said. “They must be given access to medical treatment.”
Hamas has forced hostages to write glowing letters on the conditions under which they were held. One letter distributed widely by Arab media was written by Danielle Aloni, who was kidnapped with her daughter Emilia, 5, and returned on Nov. 26.
In it, she thanked Hamas for its “extraordinary humanity” towards her daughter.
Israel’s media has warned to ignore such propaganda.
Of the 145 hostages still being held by Hamas, 28 are women and 117 are men. Ten of the hostages are age 75 or older, among them husbands of women already released.
One hundred five hostages were released in small batches over the course of a week in which Israel has agreed to a halt in the fighting for the sake of their return.
On Friday, Hamas violated the ceasefire and renewed hostilities.
UN Palestinian delegation presents photo of Israeli child murdered by Hamas as Palestinian child killed by Israelis
A recent discovery showed up the tactics of the propagandist Palestinians:
The Palestinian Delegation to the UN in Geneva presented an exhibit of the faces of children they claim have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. Of the faces presented, one stood out as immediately false – as it depicted the face of 5-year-old Ido Avigal, an Israeli child killed by Hamas rocket fire in Sderot in 2021.
No low is too low for the Palestinian leadership, which is made up of infamous liars.
Taqiyya (dissimulation) is an encouraged practice in Islam, backed by a Qur’anic verse:
And they [the disbelievers] schemed, and Allah schemed: and Allah is the best of schemers. (Quran 3:54)
Biden recently recognized the Palestinian proclivity to deceive when he stated: “I have no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are killed. I’m sure innocents have been killed, and it’s the price of waging a war. But I have no confidence in the number that the Palestinians are using.” But then, Biden apologized to appease Muslim groups in the US.
A block continues to afflict the Western mind, preventing the understanding of the range of ploys employed by violent and stealth jihadists.
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Palestinian UN exhibit of Gaza suffering uses photo
of Israeli kid killed by Hamas
by Joanie Margulies, Jerusalem Post, November 29, 2023:
The Palestinian Delegation to the UN in Geneva presented an exhibit of the faces of children they claim have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. Of the faces presented, one stood out as immediately false – as it depicted the face of 5-year-old Ido Avigal, an Israeli child killed by Hamas rocket fire in Sderot in 2021.
The exhibition was erected as part of an “International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People” event hosted Wednesday by UN Geneva at the Palais des Nations.
Israel’s representatives to the UN in Geneva expressed disgust and called for Tatiana Valovaya, its director general, to remove the exhibition, citing inaccuracies and the spread of misinformation and propaganda at the hands of the UN and the Palestinian Delegation.
Ido Avigal was killed in May 2021 when a rocket shard penetrated the window of the safe room in the family’s Sderot home. His mother Shani, 7-year-old sister and five members of the extended family were injured in the attack, including his six-year-old cousin.
Ido’s face has been used beforeBetween photos of Israeli child victims being used in Palestinian propaganda and the rise of AI generated images, issues like this continue to rise. This was not the first instance of its kind….
Hamas has absolutely no compulsion to tell the truth. Those who actually believe anything that comes from Hamas or its supporters are absolute fools.
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