Today Israel released interrogation footage of a "Gaza hospital director" who is also a senior member of Hamas. In the 4-minute clip, the Hamas leader reveals details of how the terror group turned the hospital into a military base, ran command and control centers inside the facility, and employed Hamas members as doctors and nurses.
This telling admission further exposes the terrorists’ playbook: hijack civilian life in Gaza and exploit every resource for its killing machine.
Israel also announced today that 1,500 Hamas terror tunnels have now been exposed during the IDF’s operation. These tunnels took years and millions of dollars to build, using materials that could have helped the people of Gaza.
Watch and share this AIPAC video on Hamas’ vast tunnel network beneath the Gaza Strip.
"One of history’s most treacherous battlefields"
Colonel Richard Kemp, a former commander in the UK Armed Forces, joined IDF soldiers in Gaza to see firsthand the incomparably harsh environment facing Israeli troops. Kemp details the immense challenge of fighting a terrorist group that booby-traps houses, works to lure soldiers into ambushes, and stores its weapons in children’s bedrooms – and the inevitable tragedy that can occur under the circumstances. He also notes the remarkable spirit and resilience of the IDF despite it all. Read his column here.
"We were there to bear witness to what happened."
Members of the media continue to react to the raw footage from the October 7 massacre. On Friday, NewsNation host Chris Cuomo spoke about the horrors he witnessed, saying, "It was death in your face, hands-on and personal...This was absolute genocide."
USA Today columnist Ingrid Jacques wrote a powerful column today reflecting on what she saw. "These terrorists wanted to preserve the brutal murders on camera, and they were gleeful as they inflicted unspeakably evil acts on innocent civilians," she wrote.
"This war is not Israel’s fault. Hamas carefully plotted the vicious attack, and Hamas jihadists have openly said that they will launch rampage after rampage until Israel is destroyed. Hamas is not a liberation group, as some have claimed. They are genocidal terrorists." Read her opinion piece here.
Below are a few additional videos to watch and share, including more testimonials from survivors of the October 7 massacre.
"It’s an everyday humiliation. Mentally and physically."
Raz Ben Ami, 57 years old, recounts the horrors of her 53 days in Hamas captivity.
These are just some of the eyewitness accounts of sexual violence against Israelis on October 7.
A 9-minute compilation documenting the events of October 7, created by Fauda creator and Israeli journalist Avi Issacharoff.
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld, and his wife Jessica, are in Israel to witness the devastation following October 7. They visited the site of the Nova music festival, Kibbutz Be’eri, and met with hostages who have returned home and families of hostages still in Hamas captivity.
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