On Monday, the Israeli government showed 200 foreign press members roughly 43 minutes of body-cam footage recovered from deceased and captured Hamas terrorists.
The footage was recorded by terrorists who participated in the Oct. 7 invasion of southern Israel, in which over 1,400 people were killed and around 220 hostages taken by Hamas into Gaza.
The Israeli government made the decision to screen the graphic footage to the international press to combat the growing phenomenon the IDF has been facing recently to provide evidence of the atrocities committed by Hamas during the invasion and brutal assault.
The journalists who attended were not allowed to record or take pictures, as the government said some of the images are too graphic to be released publicly.
Many journalists who attended the screening were crying as they watched the videos, and some even walked out, unable to bear the horrifying scenes.
Israeli government spokesman Eylon Levy said the decision to screen the video footage came after the government saw an unprecedented “Holocaust denial-like phenomenon” regarding the atrocities across social media.
“As we work to defeat the terror organization, we are witnessing a Holocaust denial-like phenomenon evolving in real-time as people are casting doubt on the magnitude of the atrocities Hamas committed against our people and in fact recorded in order to glorify this violence,” Levy said.
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