What is used for genocide?
That was the strange question that popped into my head as I prepared – and steeled myself – to visit the Israeli Consulate in New York late Friday morning to watch 45 minutes of the hundreds of hours of footage collected from the October 7 Hamas bloodbath in the south. Israel.
I had some idea of the horrors I was about to see, of course.
Pictures and videos showing the results of the terrorist rampage have been pouring out of Israel and the Gaza Strip for weeks — some even while it was happening.
Dead terrorists have received written instructions containing instructions to operate GoPro cameras to capture their evil deeds and sometimes post them in real time on social media.
Hamas and its Iranian masters want the dirty deeds documented. They aim to terrorize the entire country and beyond by showing what they are capable of.
And they sought to inspire their fellow travelers to follow him in intensifying the jihad.
Yet some people still say they don’t believe such a thing is happening — with skepticism found in the most educated and elite sectors of society.
Pro-Palestinian protesters attend the “Flood Brooklyn for Gaza” demonstration, as the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas continued on Saturday.REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs
Hence the Friday special.
I used to be a movie critic, and I can tell you the atmosphere at this screening is like no other.
None of us wanted to see such a sight. But none of us will pass up the opportunity. The world needs to know what happened because “reputable” news organizations refuse to tell the truth about that horrible day.
Journalists, about 20 of us, had to leave cell phones and Apple Watches at the door. Some of the footage has never been released, and Israeli authorities have their reasons for showing it only to journalists and a select few — like President Biden. They care about the feelings of the families involved, of course.
They also don’t want such horror and humiliation broadcast around the world: “We have values,” as retired general and reservist Mickey Edelstein declared in a Zoom briefing from Israel after the screening.
Am I trying to give you the right context before explaining what I saw? Or do I put off putting in image words that I won’t forget?
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I have learned how ugly this world is. I recently spent several weeks in Ukraine, where I heard firsthand story after story about the humiliation and brutality of the Russian occupation.
I have interviewed Iranians who escaped from a notorious jail in Tehran for dissidents, including a younger brother and sister who were tortured in front of each other.
But humans still have the capacity to surprise – if one can call Hamas members human. I will be haunted for a long time by what happened on Oct. 7.
Everyone should.
The recording makes things easier — a little. Terrorists shoot at drivers on the highway. They entered the kibbutz and blew the tires of the ambulance first. They shot a dog, which was still trembling in the street. They burned the house. Then they started entering the house.
Israel collects video from a variety of sources: public closed-circuit TV, traffic cameras, dashcams of terrorists and victims, as well as their social media posts and messages home. In footage from the fighters’ body cameras, you can hear the killers breathing heavily as they nervously approach their victims.
I want to look away
It was hard to watch. It is more difficult for the Israelis. The consul general admitted afterwards that he could not stay for the whole inspection. Another staff member seemed to have the hardest time seeing and hearing some of the same footage I did: A father trying to get his young children, wearing only their underwear, safely to a backyard shelter.
A grenade landed before he could close the door, and he was dead. A terrorist takes his two sons back into the house, and security cameras capture their destruction. The explosion blinded a boy. Others fell to the ground, sadly pleading, “Why am I still alive? Why am I still alive?” (The boys, we’re told, managed to escape — at least physically.)
We see a house in a kibbutzim, a field where young concertgoers walk, an Israel Defense Forces installation with terrified young women huddled in a room.
blood. Blood everywhere, the tracks, the puddles. The charred corpse is still smoking. A man with a stuffy nose. Israeli army without a head. An old woman wearing only bright colored underwear was never seen by many people. The pile of corpses was surrounded by celebrating youths, chanting, “Allahu akbar!”
Some footage has been geolocated to Gaza. A broken woman was taken from the back of the Jeep, the back of her pants covered in blood, and taken to the back seat. We can easily understand what might have happened to him there. Young men shouted, trying to look inside, some filming with their mobile phones. Two older men walk – finally, this will stop, I almost thought. No: They also want to look attractive.
The woman who was raped had a broken leg, consulate staff said. Then they were killed.
Many times I wanted to look away, but I forced myself not to. We journalists had to see what happened so we could tell the world.
But here’s a line from a CBS News piece written by a reporter who saw the footage in Israel: “In another clip, a militant stands over a man who appears to have been shot in the gut and hacks at him several times with a garden. hoe.”
The words “terrorist” or “terrorism” do not appear in that section. (They also did not appear in The New York Times report on the screening.)
I can tell you that it is not “a militant” who “stands over a man.” A group of terrorists fought over who could decapitate the man, a Thai worker bleeding profusely from his stomach but still alive. Someone repeatedly hacked at him with a hoe, trying to cut off his head. Each time, the terrorists shouted, “Allahuakbar!”
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The difference in detail is why the consulate staff had to go through 45 minutes of misery.
They need people to see what’s going on — and speak out against those who pretend it isn’t or isn’t as bad as they claim. Journalists from supposedly serious publications insist you can’t say Hamas beheaded babies — sure, dead babies are found without heads, but who knows who did the deed?
The hatred I witnessed went beyond those who entered Israel that day. A young man uses a dead Israeli woman’s phone to call her parents and brags about killing 10 Jews “with my bare hands.”
He pleaded, “Please make me proud, Father.”
That is the culture Israel must fight against even after it destroys those who planned and carried out the October 7 massacre.
And then there’s New York City. The day after the screening, thousands of antisemites marched into Manhattan across the Brooklyn Bridge after a rally at the Brooklyn Museum. In front are people holding banners that read “By any means necessary.”
Understand what is meant by such signs, which are becoming more and more common.
These people know what happened on Oct. 7. They gathered in large numbers in New York and other cities across the country to show their support for the animals who committed these atrocities.
They are as bloodthirsty as breathing heavy terrorists whose voice will not go out of their heads by the Israelites.
Kelly Jane Torrance is The Post’s op-ed editor.
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