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Only valid response in the thread. Damn. Some people.
I’ll vouch for that.
I wish I listened to your warning
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Israeli authorities have shown harrowing footage of killings and mutilations during Hamas’s rampage in southern Israel on 7 October.
The government showed the 43-minute compilation in a private screening for dozens of foreign journalists at a military base in Tel Aviv on Monday to counter what it said were attempts to deny or downplay the extent of the atrocities.
The audience was not allowed to record the compilation but one excerpt, approximately one minute long, was released to the public: it showed Hamas militants flagging down a car as it drove slowly along a rural road.
The gunmen open fire, hitting the vehicle, which swerved and halted, revealing two people slumped in the front seats.
Still images showed a decapitated soldier, charred human remains, including those of young children, and several Islamic State flags, the Times of Israel reported.
The screening took place amid renewed appeals to Israel to halt its bombing of Gaza, which killed at least 400 Palestinians in the past 24 hours, bringing the total death toll in the territory to more than 5,000, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.
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That they have to even have to counter denial is so incredibly fucked. So many terrorism and war-crime aligned apologists, it’s just horrific.
The audience was not allowed to record the compilation but one excerpt, approximately one minute long, was released to the public
So 1 minute of verified footage?
Edit: release the snyder cut
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Why so you can celebrate it? Holy fuck man, your attempt to sew doubt is exactly why they released it. You should consider not being pro terrorist and war crimes.
Your comment literally make the point. JUST WOW.
your attempt to sew doubt is exactly why they released it.
Except they didn’t release it. They released one minute of footage. All I’m asking is that we let the journalists verify the other 42 minutes.
Is that really an insane ask? It’s not
“The government showed the 43-minute compilation in a private screening for dozens of foreign journalists”
They reviewed 43 min. Read the article. I wouldn’t release it publicly either for Hamas to recruit with and celebrate.
I reviewed Lord of the Rings for 11h 22m, it was legit. Elves are real and the trees are currently talking to me.
No one is seriously denying the horrors of 7 Oct. They didn’t do this to counter anything, they did it to shock journalists. Frankly, I think what they did was abusive.
Are you suggesting they kidnapped the journalists and forced them to watch it? As far as I’ve understood, this was voluntary.
Also, there absolutely are corners of the internet that are denying that any atrocities occurred at all.
Corners of the internet, sure. However those people aren’t going to be convinced by some journalists they don’t know watching 43 minutes of curated gore porn.
Voluntary or not, videos like that would be traumatising and most journalists would feel obligated to watch - it’s their job.
Yes, they are… you don’t even have to leave lemmy to see them. It’s super low effort to find. Just browse a little.
No one is seriously denying the horrors of 7 Oct.
Replace seriously with “honestly” or “genuinely” if it suits you better.
My point is, saying it didn’t happen isn’t a proper argument, and this presentation isn’t genuinely meant to address that position either. It’s meant to horrify people and distract from the atrocities that have happened since.
The Hamas killings were terrible and started all of this in the first place.
I think you’ll find that the conflict is quite a bit older than Hamas is.
And older than Israel
Just not older than Zionism.
Good answer.
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I remember when Hamas put Netanyahu in power, allowing him to beat Perez by less than 1% thanks to their suicide and bus bombings of civilians. They been loyal partners wver since. And Hamas made sure that Israel couldn’t politically sustain the withdrawal of Palestian territories and autonomy that had happened. A lot of ppl don’t even know that happened (Isreal withdrawal and autonomy).
