Hamas gunmen cheered with joy while shooting civilians in previously unseen clip of massacre
Some of the footage was taken from body worn cameras of dead Hamas fighters.
Unseen before footage of Hamas’ onslaught on southern Israel on October 7 has been released.
Israel’s Defence Forces (IDF) screened a 43-minute compilation of the massacre to show the extent of the militant’s group’s atrocities – but most of it is too graphic to be shown to the public.
A screening was held for journalists yesterday at a military base on the outskirts of Tel Aviv.
They were shown raw footage from retrieved body cameras worn by the gunmen as they raided kibbutz after kibbutz, and clips from CCTV, dashboard cameras and their mobile phones.
One traumatic sequence showed a dad rushing his two young boys into an above ground shelter, seconds before attackers threw a grenade in.
The dad was killed, while his sons were injured and left in a state of utter distress, the BBC reported.
After the two boys staggered back into their home screaming, a Hamas gunman calmly entered and looked through the fridge in front of them, pausing to take a drink before walking out again.
One of the boys cried to his brother: ‘Daddy is dead, this is not a prank,’ and then repeated ‘Why am I alive?’
His brother was apparently blinded by the grenade. A military spokesperson at the screening was unable to say whether they survived.
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