On Friday, the Israeli consulate in New York City screened footage, recorded by Hamas operatives themselves, of the atrocities of October 7 for a group of journalists. The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board describes what they saw. (Please note that the following description, while not graphic, is still very hard to read.)
Why did the Hamas men, upon confronting the dead body of a teenage girl, start cheering? Why did they argue over who would get to decapitate a Thai guest worker they had shot, then proclaim “Allahu akbar” with every swing at his neck?
“Allahu akbar,” meaning “God is most great,” was on their lips over and over as they shot defenseless civilians, dragged corpses, and pumped round after round into the dead. There it was again on the terrorists’ return to Gaza, “Allahu akbar” coming from crowds as a Hamas man pulled by the hair a battered hostage with pants bloodied around her groin.
One of the Hamas men called his parents using the phone of a murdered Israeli woman, unable to contain his pride. “Put Mom on the phone,” he said. “Your son is a hero. . . . I killed ten Jews with my own hands!” The phone recorded the call, so we can know his goal: “victory or martyrdom.”
Read more on Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/articles/israel-hamas-video-screening-gaza-tsach-saar-31ed88ab