Grotesque Evil – Hamas October 7th massacres
On Oct 7th, Hamas terrorists murdered 1200, kidnapped 240.
– Burnt babies and whole families
– Beheaded civilians including children
– Eye-gouged, cut off breasts and fingers in acts of torture
– Raped girls next to their murdered friends and then shot them. Grotesque evil.
Video/photo evidence :
- https://www.memri.org/reports/special-announcement-%E2%80%93-hamas-atrocities-documentation-center-hadc
- Telegram: Documentation Center https://t.me/Haatdocereport
Hamas Atrocities https://t.me/hamasatrocities
Hamas Slaughter https://t.me/the_slaughter710/1182
South First Responders https://t.me/southfirstresponders
- HamasISIS23.com
- https://www.hamas-massacre.net/
- https://saturday-october-seven.com/
- https://x.com/MelissaSChapman/status/1771550064319619557
UK Parliamentary report on Oct 7th, listing the details of every murder. https://www.7octparliamentarycommission.co.uk/
Eye Witness testimonies:
Journalist Sabrina Maddeaux: I watched Hamas hack innocents to death. The worst part was their glee https://nationalpost.com/opinion/sabrina-maddeaux-i-watched-hamas-hack-innocents-to-death-the-worst-part-was-their-glee
Hamas shot kids in head, raped women, burnt elderly alive
https://thewest.com.au/news/world/israel-war-live-coverage-hamas-shot-boy-girls-in-head-raped-women-burnt-elderly-alive-beheaded-soldiers-c-12179546
Eye-witness account of the rave massacre. “Women have been raped at the area of the rave next to their friends bodies, dead bodies.”. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/israel-music-festival-massacre-eyewitness-account
Yossi Landau, a 33 year veteran of ZAKA (Oct 7th medical first responders) witnessed a naked and bound teenage girl who had been beheaded, 20 people who had been burned alive, and a mutilated pregnant mother.
He saw a father, mother, and two children, ages 6 and 7, on their knees with their hands tied behind their backs.
“The bodies were tortured,” he said before describing various acts of mutilation, eyes and fingers missing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GioV-SGhy4
Israeli female soldiers shot in crotch, vagina, breasts on October 7 https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/article-776654
‘Toddlers, babies with their heads cut off’: Israeli PM’s spokesperson describes scene in border village after Hamas attack
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/kfar-azza-hamas-attack-babies-children/
‘They shot a baby’: Hamas attack survivor recounts terror in Israel kibbutz
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1JmRL-xo_tI.
Israeli surgeon says she’s witnessed beheaded babies, cut off limbs | Dan Abrams Live
https://www.newsnationnow.com/video/israeli-surgeon-says-shes-witnessed-beheaded-babies-cut-off-limbs-dan-abrams-live/9119781/
Hamas tortured 80 percent of victims including children
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/israeli-forensic-team-says-hamas-tortured-80-percent-of-victims-including-children-5510876
Israeli village near the Gaza border lies in ruin, filled with the bodies of residents and militants
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-hamas-52a847e489cd13ccf61b403618e61c36
Captured Hamas terrorist from Oct 7th admits shooting child https://youtu.be/GFVAOPSgwYo?si=NpNQPgZkDpS5go0z
“Israel defence officials opened the kibbutz to international media……. The brutal sights of beheaded young children were so disturbing….” https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/forty-babies-and-children-murdered-and-beheaded-by-hamas-terrorists-in-israeli-kibbutz-kfar-aza/news-story/8a2e49817caaffc497de473ed5d127ab?amp&nk=5ecc814c036d813c6aac4db231f391d1-1696966400.
Eye witness testimony of Israeli girl raped and then shot https://www.facebook.com/reel/312546341597288?mibextid=9drbnH
Hamas Raped ‘Women, Grandmothers, Children’ So Violently ‘They Broke Victims’ Pelvis’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/israeli-official-hamas-raped-women-grandmothers-children-so-violently-they-broke-victims-pelvis
Hamas gouged eye out of victim, chopped off fingers, evidence of ghastly torture.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12666289/Eyes-gouged-womans-breasts-cut-daughter-legs-severed-Horrific-details-Hamas-massacre-emerge-rescue-worker-recounts-entire-families-slaughtered.html
Hamas threw a baby out of a window
https://youtu.be/NYH-Fy8C2Yw?si=bPnZHdxPYS7sxgUd
Father and child tied together and burnt alive https://youtu.be/SoTItPHa6mw?si=n10cK0C4yyRTecqo
Entire Siman Tov family: Murdered by Hamas in Kibbutz Nir Oz. https://www.timesofisrael.com/terrorists-murdered-entire-young-family-sheltering-in-kibbutz-nir-oz-saferoom/
Rabbi Israel Weiss, former army chief rabbi, one of the officials overseeing the identification of the dead. He said many bodies showed signs of torture as well as rape.
“We’ve seen dismembered bodies with their arms and feet chopped off, people that were beheaded, a child that was beheaded,” a reserve warrant officer identified only by her first name of Avigayil told reporters.
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/beheaded-limbs-chopped-off-israeli-forensic-teams-describe-hamas-torture-4482194
Photos of the burnt babies by terrorist Hamas on Israeli Prime minister’s twitter X https://twitter.com/IsraeliPM/status/1712471782303867144?t=sKLe7xlF7qUfvV5P-R46lA&s=19
Captured Oct 7th Hamas terrorist confesses “We heard children inside and shot until we didn’t hear a sound”
https://youtu.be/jXs47L4OdwQ?si=pDoEijjojRtMmYl2
US Secretary Blinken describing how he saw a video of a Hamas terrorist throwing a grenade into a shelter where a dad and his two small boys were hiding, they come staggering out, the terrorist shoots the father and follows the two young boys into the house, he then casually eats from the fridge before killing them.
https://youtu.be/8zTE_gUO-Uw?si=I8pkvspI12aMWz4p&t=123
National Center of Forensic Medicine in Tel Aviv: images of a girl who was shot in the head at point-blank range and then beheaded. Another imaging revealed how terrorists set a person on fire after stabbing, shooting and running him over. https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/hjnrxdnoa
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3 year old Abigail Mor Edan saw her parents murdered and was then taken hostage to Gaza by terrorists. https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-a-us-family-lobbied-to-free-their-3-year-old-orphaned-on-oct-7-from-hamas-captivity/
“There was a little girl, around eight or nine years old, and they cut off her hand, cut it all, no hand. She was still breathing, she was shaking. And I performed a tourniquet but it was her last breathing [sic],” First responder Atias told CNN in an interview. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bj1rzalq6
1st responder medical team receiving bodies from Oct 7th: girls shot in genitals / breast, girl shot so many times in head “purposeful obliteration of women’s faces”, woman came in with bloodied crotch, leg cut off, “genital mutilation of women” , some were “booby trapped” needing SAPs to defuse explosives. Woman’s arm and leg broken in so many places “it was like marbles”. https://youtu.be/cP_oTVyrdxE?si=Bx9w7YGsHJlz2fEB
Secretary General Anthony Blinken described how he saw a video where a woman’s breast cut off, her husband’s eye gouged out, a girl’s foot amputated, the boy’s finger cut off, before they were executed.
https://www.tiktok.com/@israelcc/video/7297693193448033578
‘I carried a beheaded baby in my hands,’ says Kibbutz Be’eri rescuer
https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel-at-war/1698319384-i-carried-beheaded-baby-in-my-hands-says-kibbutz-be-eri-rescuer
Several of these rape victims appear to have been later executed. Others were taken to Gaza. In photographs released online, you can see several paraded through the city’s streets, blood gushing from between their legs. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/israel-music-festival-massacre-eyewitness-account
Zaka first responder describes a woman with her shirt pulled up, shorts pulled up high and shot in the groin. And finding three women shot in the groin.
https://www.instagram.com/melissaschapman/reel/C7NKCEWuYBk/
Zaka first Chaim Otzmagin describes seeing a woman with a sharp object up her groin, severed heads, skulls of children.
https://www.tiktok.com/@knessettv/video/7356239359781129480
Interrogated Hamas Oct 7th terrorist:
“The plan was to go from home to home, from room to room, to throw grenades and kill everyone, including women and children,” he said. “Hamas ordered us to crush their heads and cut them off, [and] to cut their legs.” https://www.timesofisrael.com/kill-behead-rape-interrogated-hamas-members-detail-atrocities-against-civilians/
At least 10 freed hostages were sexually abused in Hamas captivity, doctor says https://www.timesofisrael.com/at-least-10-freed-hostages-were-sexually-abused-by-hamas-in-captivity-doctor-says/
New York Times reporters identified at least seven locations where Israeli women and girls appear to have been sexually assaulted or mutilated. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/world/asia/rape-hamas-israel-investigation-asia.html
Hamas gang raped and beheaded women at rave massacre, fresh testimony reveals https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/hamas-gang-raped-and-beheaded-women-at-rave-massacre-fresh-testimony-reveals-blp0ghdl
‘Lying by their side were two small children, with their hands also tied behind their back. They were all burned to death,’ Zaka first responder Landau said. ‘I saw a dead mother holding her dead baby, both killed with a single bullet that went through them. I saw 20 children shot and burned and piled together and two piles,’ Landau said, his voice now overcome with emotion at the horrors he’s witnessed. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12623843/Israel-releases-images-babies-murdered-burned-Hamas-verified-photos-beheaded-terrorists-confirmed-local-media-IDF-drops-Gaza-leaflets-telling-citizens-flee.html
Israeli medic recounts attempt to save 8 year old girl whose hand was cut off by Hamas. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bj1rzalq6
Shocking cases of rape-murders. Woman assaulted with metal object and killed, breasts cut off. https://fb.watch/oVNhqBKAum/?mibextid=Nif5oz
Eye-witness accounts of rape
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/vA2BUuZHdBDAJrGm/?mibextid=NnVzG8
Doctors, UNWRA teachers and veterinarians held Israeli hostages in dangerous conditions that almost killed them. https://fb.watch/oGvvv4vpu2/?mibextid=Nif5oz
Hamas commander admits terrorists use their own kids to handle explosives.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/25127691/israel-gaza-hamas-terrorists-kids-explosives-shrugs/
First responder witnessed women raped and killed including with one who had nails in her private parts. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/yh3tJu7eVpCZTTrK/?mibextid=SphRi8
Odaya and Dolev Swisa were murdered in front of their two young daughters by Hamas terrorists on October 7 in Sderot. https://www.timesofisrael.com/odaya-and-dolev-swissa-33-34-murdered-in-front-of-their-daughters/
Video of beaten up, crying and bloodied kidnapped 18 year old Israeli girls.
https://fb.watch/qevsI749CS/
Rocket slams into Israeli hospital
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12617483/gaza-airstrikes-tent-city-nest-terror.html
Israeli video compilation shows the savagery and ease of Hamas’ attack https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-attack-military-war-a8f63b07641212f0de61861844e5e71e?utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Facebook
Comprehensive report on violence against women on Oct 7th sent to UN by Israeli Association of Rape Crisis Centers (ARCCI), https://allisrael.com/report-detailing-strategy-of-sexual-violence-used-by-hamas-on-october-7-sent-to-un
“It was often impossible for families to be shown faces – and it seems as if mutilation of these women’s faces was an objective in their murders.”.
“The soldiers that we dealt with had expressions of agony on their faces still,” said Mendes. “I remember one young woman whose arm was broken in so many places it was difficult for us to lay her arm in the burial shroud, her leg too. In her case, the entire left side of her body was shredded, torn apart, most likely by a grenade.” https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/article-776654
Attackers laughed as they raped and murdered a woman in Israel on October 7, witness says. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/04/middleeast/sexual-assault-october-7-israel-witness-int/index.html
Another, Nachman Dyksztejna, provided written testimony of seeing the bodies of two women in kibbutz Be’eri with their hands and legs tied to a bed. “One was sexually terrorised with a knife stuck in her vagina and all her internal organs removed,” his statement says. At the festival site, he says small shelters were “filled with piles of women. Their clothing was torn on the upper part, but their bottoms were completely naked. Piles and piles of women. […] When you took a closer look at their heads, you saw a single shot straight to the brain of each.”. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67629181
Speaking at a Senate hearing, Blinken said: “A young boy and girl, 6 and 8 years old, and their parents around the breakfast table. The father’s eye gouged out in front of his kids. The mother’s breast cut off, the girl’s foot amputated, the boy’s fingers cut off before they were executed.”
“And then their executioners sat down and had a meal. That is what this society is dealing with,” he said.
https://www.businessinsider.com/israel-hamas-gaza-militants-ate-lunch-tortured-mutilated-young-family-2023-10
UN Report: Palestinians Raped Women’s Corpses On October 7 https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/03/un-report-palestinians-raped-womens-corpses-on-october-7/
The BBC has seen and heard evidence of rape, sexual violence and mutilation of women during the 7 October Hamas attacks. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67629181
Israeli Hostage Says She Was Sexually Assaulted and Tortured in Gaza https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/world/middleeast/hamas-hostage-sexual-assault.html
Hamas terrorists’ ‘sadistic’ sexual violence included shoving knives inside Israeli rape victims’ genitals before execution: report. https://nypost.com/2024/02/21/world-news/hamas-shoved-knives-inside-israeli-rape-victims-report/
Greyman described finding a woman who was shot in the back of her head, lying on her bed, naked from her waist down. A live grenade was planted in her hand. And then there was the body with the nails. “I was called into a house, I was told there are few bodies over there. I saw in front of my eyes a woman, laying (down). She was naked and she had nails …,” Greyman managed to say before pausing for a long time, struggling to get the words out. “She had nails and different objects in her female organs. Her body was brutalized in a way that we could not identify her,” he added, the trauma clearly visible on his face. https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/06/middleeast/rape-sexual-violence-hamas-israel-what-we-know-intl/index.html
Attackers laughed as they raped and murdered a woman in Israel on October 7, witness says. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/04/middleeast/sexual-assault-october-7-israel-witness-int/index.html
“My father raped her, then I did and then my cousin did and then we left but my father killed the woman after we finished raping her.”. https://www.israelhayom.com/2024/05/23/like-father-like-son-hamas-terrorists-confess-to-rape-and-murder-of-civilians/
Screams before Silence. Documentary of the rapes from Oct 7th. https://youtu.be/zAr9oGSXgak?si=hm-2dRG_srTRdCUE
“My grandmother on the ground, in her own home, murdered, in a video,” she said in Hebrew. “The floor was all bloody. My grandmother, laying there.” Bayder said that a militant had taken the grandmother’s cellphone and uploaded a video of her body to the grandmother’s Facebook page. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mor-bayder-grandmother-killed-hamas-attack-facebook-video/
CNN interview of Nova festival survivor, “I saw a girl her body parts everywhere, she was still alive, crawling to kiss her dead boyfriend”
He describes RPGs were shot everywhere, grenades thrown, women executed at “point blank” range. Bodies full of bullets. https://youtu.be/VWu7zjxvOxg?si=Ib4XDxLBGEUoWTD3
The video of execution of Karina Pritika as she was fleeing Nova music festival, Palestinians were chasing her. Then she was on her knees, begging and pleading not to shoot her. But Palestinians shot her anyway. They shot and murdered this innocent unarmed woman that couldn’t harm him in any way. Karina Pritika was a former gymnast, participated in International competitions. Friends described her as a person who spread light everywhere. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-ECe4NRSoe/?igsh=cmJuMHZhMDg2NzE4

https://www.thisishamas.com/
https://www.october7thattack.com/
https://saturday-october-seven.com/#/
https://www.hamas-massacre.net/
70% of Palestinians support Hamas crimes against humanity on Oct 7th:
“I saw a baby who had been burnt in an oven”, says Israeli emergency worker https://www.thejc.com/news/news/i-saw-a-baby-who-had-been-baked-in-an-oven-says-israeli-emergency-worker-6A8bb0Tq56ytMO46OevOzy
Eye witness account of Hamas cutting open pregnant woman and stabbing the foetus. https://youtu.be/5c2pYysSPWE?si=d49ooIK2GbJKu8hH
Journalist Sabrina Maddeaux: I watched Hamas hack innocents to death. The worst part was their glee https://nationalpost.com/opinion/sabrina-maddeaux-i-watched-hamas-hack-innocents-to-death-the-worst-part-was-their-glee
Hamas shot kids in head, raped women, burnt elderly alive
https://thewest.com.au/news/world/israel-war-live-coverage-hamas-shot-boy-girls-in-head-raped-women-burnt-elderly-alive-beheaded-soldiers-c-12179546
Eye-witness account of the rave massacre. “Women have been raped at the area of the rave next to their friends bodies, dead bodies.”. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/israel-music-festival-massacre-eyewitness-account
Several of these rape victims appear to have been later executed. Others were taken to Gaza. In photographs released online, you can see several paraded through the city’s streets, blood gushing from between their legs. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/israel-music-festival-massacre-eyewitness-account
Israeli female soldiers shot in crotch, vagina, breasts on October 7 https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/article-776654
‘Toddlers, babies with their heads cut off’: Israeli PM’s spokesperson describes scene in border village after Hamas attack
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/kfar-azza-hamas-attack-babies-children/
‘They shot a baby’: Hamas attack survivor recounts terror in Israel kibbutz
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1JmRL-xo_tI.
Israeli surgeon says she’s witnessed beheaded babies, cut off limbs | Dan Abrams Live
https://www.newsnationnow.com/video/israeli-surgeon-says-shes-witnessed-beheaded-babies-cut-off-limbs-dan-abrams-live/9119781/
Hamas tortured 80 percent of victims including children
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/israeli-forensic-team-says-hamas-tortured-80-percent-of-victims-including-children-5510876
Israeli village near the Gaza border lies in ruin, filled with the bodies of residents and militants
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-hamas-52a847e489cd13ccf61b403618e61c36
Captured Hamas terrorist from Oct 7th admits shooting child https://youtu.be/GFVAOPSgwYo?si=NpNQPgZkDpS5go0z
“Israel defence officials opened the kibbutz to international media……. The brutal sights of beheaded young children were so disturbing….” https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/forty-babies-and-children-murdered-and-beheaded-by-hamas-terrorists-in-israeli-kibbutz-kfar-aza/news-story/8a2e49817caaffc497de473ed5d127ab?amp&nk=5ecc814c036d813c6aac4db231f391d1-1696966400.
Eye witness testimony of Israeli girl raped and then shot https://www.facebook.com/reel/312546341597288?mibextid=9drbnH
Hamas Raped ‘Women, Grandmothers, Children’ So Violently ‘They Broke Victims’ Pelvis’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/israeli-official-hamas-raped-women-grandmothers-children-so-violently-they-broke-victims-pelvis
Hamas gouged eye out of victim, chopped off fingers, evidence of ghastly torture.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12666289/Eyes-gouged-womans-breasts-cut-daughter-legs-severed-Horrific-details-Hamas-massacre-emerge-rescue-worker-recounts-entire-families-slaughtered.html
Hamas threw a baby out of a window
https://youtu.be/NYH-Fy8C2Yw?si=bPnZHdxPYS7sxgUd
Father and child tied together and burnt alive https://youtu.be/SoTItPHa6mw?si=n10cK0C4yyRTecqo
Rabbi Israel Weiss, former army chief rabbi, one of the officials overseeing the identification of the dead. He said many bodies showed signs of torture as well as rape.
“We’ve seen dismembered bodies with their arms and feet chopped off, people that were beheaded, a child that was beheaded,” a reserve warrant officer identified only by her first name of Avigayil told reporters.
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/beheaded-limbs-chopped-off-israeli-forensic-teams-describe-hamas-torture-4482194
Photos of the burnt babies by terrorist Hamas on Israeli Prime minister’s twitter X https://twitter.com/IsraeliPM/status/1712471782303867144?t=sKLe7xlF7qUfvV5P-R46lA&s=19
Captured Oct 7th Hamas terrorist confesses “We heard children inside and shot until we didn’t hear a sound”
https://youtu.be/jXs47L4OdwQ?si=pDoEijjojRtMmYl2
US Secretary Blinken describing how he saw a video of a Hamas terrorist throwing a grenade into a shelter where a dad and his two small boys were hiding, they come staggering out, the terrorist shoots the father and follows the two young boys into the house, he then casually eats from the fridge before killing them.
https://youtu.be/8zTE_gUO-Uw?si=I8pkvspI12aMWz4p&t=123
National Center of Forensic Medicine in Tel Aviv: images of a girl who was shot in the head at point-blank range and then beheaded. Another imaging revealed how terrorists set a person on fire after stabbing, shooting and running him over. https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/hjnrxdnoa
Data and statistics from Oct 7th.
Debunked Myths.
https://www.warinisrael.org/
Crimes committed by Hamas on October 7th:
Murder and Torture: Reports of beheaded babies, dismembered bodies, and signs of torture on victims, including children.
Rape and Sexual Violence: Accounts of women, including grandmothers and children, being raped violently.
Burning and Mutilation: Victims reportedly burnt alive, with limbs chopped off, and babies burnt in ovens.
Shooting and Beheading: Victims, including children, shot in the head and beheaded.
Other Atrocities: Throwing a baby out of a window and using grenades on civilians.
Gruesome evidence from Oct 7th by CBN News:
https://youtu.be/G6VRDeF2csU?si=VNGKJ9A7WzOBJK1m
The names of over 800 civilians who were murdered in their homes, towns and communities confronting Hamas terrorists during the brutal attack on October 7, 2023,
https://www.gov.il/en/pages/swords-of-iron-civilian-casualties
*on its stomach was the sign of a heating element, like a half a circle or a big chain.”
“He said that based on the signs on the body, it looks like they put him inside the oven alive, and he said they found the baby dead inside the oven.”
https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/article-772181?utm_source=perplexity
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Hamas tore families apart
*12 year old Hila Rotem came back without her mom who’s still in Gaza
*Orr family- Alma (13yo) and Noam (17yo) were released to a world where their father, Dror, is still abducted in Gaza and their mom,Yonat, was murdered by Hamas.
*Shoham family- Yahel (3) and Naveh (8) came back with their mom and their dad, Tal, is still in Gaza.
*Shiri and her daughter Noga Weiss were released and the father is still missing.
Not confirmed as true by Zaka or authorities:
I saw a baby who had been burnt in an oven, says Israeli emergency worker https://www.thejc.com/news/news/i-saw-a-baby-who-had-been-baked-in-an-oven-says-israeli-emergency-worker-6A8bb0Tq56ytMO46OevOzy
Eye witness account of Hamas cutting open pregnant woman and stabbing the foetus. https://youtu.be/5c2pYysSPWE?si=d49ooIK2GbJKu8hH
Hamas paraded coffins filled with the dead bodies of a 9 month old and 4 year old kidnapped on Oct 7th. They then got their own children to celebrate on a stage with those coffins. They are evil, backwards jihadists.
A new report into the October 7 attacks chaired by Lord Roberts will be launched today in the House of Commons in an effort to stem the denialism of the Hamas fans.
Among its findings:
* What unfolded over the course of the attack amounted to one of the worst terror outrages in the annals of history, leaving 1,182 dead including 18 UK citizens. This marks the largest number of UK civilian deaths from a terror attack in the Middle East, and the second highest globally after 9/11.
* In total, citizens from 44 nations were either killed or taken hostage by Hamas and other groups. The victims were overwhelmingly Jewish Israelis, but the attackers showed no mercy and slaughtered Israel Arabs and Bedouins without hesitation.
* Years of planning went into the invasion. The origins can be traced back to 2018 when Palestinian armed groups in the Gaza Strip established the “Joint Room for Palestinian Resistance Factions” to coordinate activities.
* Approximately 7,000 individuals took part in the large-scale, coordinated assault on 55 distinct locations.
* 18 UK citizens were killed including Rotem Kalderon, 66, a dual UK-Israel citizen who was previously unnamed. Her body lay undiscovered until two weeks after the attack at Kibbutz Be’eri. The report details the deaths of all 17 UK citizens killed on that day, and the two hostages that were taken – one who was then also killed in captivity, bringing the total to 18 dead.
* Deliberate killings of civilians took place at 26 locations. The youngest victim was new-born Naama Abu Rashed who suffered a gunshot wound while still in his mother’s womb and died just 14-hours after doctors performed an emergency delivery. The oldest victim was Moshe Ridler, a 92-year-old Holocaust survivor, who was killed when Hamas invaders fired a rocket propelled grenade at the door of his safe room. Civilians account for 73% of the victims of 7 October.
* The biggest age group of victims was 18-30 – largely due to the attack on the Nova music festival, which account for 375 victims.
* Causes of death included shooting, burning, asphyxiation and grenade explosions.
* Desecration of corpses was widespread, including mutilation, beheadings and boobytrapping bodies with grenades. Dead bodies were taken as hostages.
* Detailed maps of villages (kibbutzim) and hostage taking manuals were found on the attackers who also designed special weaponry to breach the doors of civilian saferooms.
* Acts of sexual violence occurred across all sites during attack. Around 30 bodies were found to have been victim to sexual attacks. As described in the report: ‘One witness who received victims’ bodies described a girl around 13-years-old, who arrived naked with signs of violence to the stomach area and both legs broken. Bodies of men and women who arrived at Shura also arrived with precise burnings to their genital area. Forensic analysis showed indications that gasoline was used to set victims’ genitals on fire, which was corroborated by a video of a female victim who was set on fire with gasoline from the waist down.’
* There were multiple incidences of torture as described in the report: ‘Scans of bodies examined at the Abu Kabir National Institute of Forensic Sciences and reviewed by Dr Ahmed show victims who were bound, had limbs crushed or dismembered. A CT scan from the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute shows a parent and child bound together with metal wire and burned alive by their assailants.
* 119 breaches in the border fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel took place during the attack, and simultaneous incursions by air and sea. The attack included an unprecedented rocket barrage which placed 75% of Israel’s population, around 7.3 million people, under threat.
The investigation leading to today’s report was conducted by Lord Roberts, with support from a panel of UK parliamentarians. The panel heard testimonials from those directly impacted including family members of victims and hostages, academics and military experts. The report also drew on footage from GoPro cameras worn by Hamas operatives on the day and CCTV footage which captured the attack.
A new report into the October 7 attacks chaired by Lord Roberts will be launched today in the House of Commons in an effort to stem the denialism of the Hamas fans.
Among its findings:
* What unfolded over the course of the attack amounted to one of the worst terror outrages in the annals of history, leaving 1,182 dead including 18 UK citizens. This marks the largest number of UK civilian deaths from a terror attack in the Middle East, and the second highest globally after 9/11.
* In total, citizens from 44 nations were either killed or taken hostage by Hamas and other groups. The victims were overwhelmingly Jewish Israelis, but the attackers showed no mercy and slaughtered Israel Arabs and Bedouins without hesitation.
* Years of planning went into the invasion. The origins can be traced back to 2018 when Palestinian armed groups in the Gaza Strip established the “Joint Room for Palestinian Resistance Factions” to coordinate activities.
* Approximately 7,000 individuals took part in the large-scale, coordinated assault on 55 distinct locations.
* 18 UK citizens were killed including Rotem Kalderon, 66, a dual UK-Israel citizen who was previously unnamed. Her body lay undiscovered until two weeks after the attack at Kibbutz Be’eri. The report details the deaths of all 17 UK citizens killed on that day, and the two hostages that were taken – one who was then also killed in captivity, bringing the total to 18 dead.
* Deliberate killings of civilians took place at 26 locations. The youngest victim was new-born Naama Abu Rashed who suffered a gunshot wound while still in his mother’s womb and died just 14-hours after doctors performed an emergency delivery. The oldest victim was Moshe Ridler, a 92-year-old Holocaust survivor, who was killed when Hamas invaders fired a rocket propelled grenade at the door of his safe room. Civilians account for 73% of the victims of 7 October.
* The biggest age group of victims was 18-30 – largely due to the attack on the Nova music festival, which account for 375 victims.
* Causes of death included shooting, burning, asphyxiation and grenade explosions.
* Desecration of corpses was widespread, including mutilation, beheadings and boobytrapping bodies with grenades. Dead bodies were taken as hostages.
* Detailed maps of villages (kibbutzim) and hostage taking manuals were found on the attackers who also designed special weaponry to breach the doors of civilian saferooms.
* Acts of sexual violence occurred across all sites during attack. Around 30 bodies were found to have been victim to sexual attacks. As described in the report: ‘One witness who received victims’ bodies described a girl around 13-years-old, who arrived naked with signs of violence to the stomach area and both legs broken. Bodies of men and women who arrived at Shura also arrived with precise burnings to their genital area. Forensic analysis showed indications that gasoline was used to set victims’ genitals on fire, which was corroborated by a video of a female victim who was set on fire with gasoline from the waist down.’
* There were multiple incidences of torture as described in the report: ‘Scans of bodies examined at the Abu Kabir National Institute of Forensic Sciences and reviewed by Dr Ahmed show victims who were bound, had limbs crushed or dismembered. A CT scan from the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute shows a parent and child bound together with metal wire and burned alive by their assailants.
* 119 breaches in the border fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel took place during the attack, and simultaneous incursions by air and sea. The attack included an unprecedented rocket barrage which placed 75% of Israel’s population, around 7.3 million people, under threat.
The investigation leading to today’s report was conducted by Lord Roberts, with support from a panel of UK parliamentarians. The panel heard testimonials from those directly impacted including family members of victims and hostages, academics and military experts. The report also drew on footage from GoPro cameras worn by Hamas operatives on the day and CCTV footage which captured the attack.