TEL AVIV- At a press briefing of more than 200 international journalists at Glilot Junction Military Base Monday, Admiral Daniel Hagari presented 43 minutes of body cam videos from the October 7th massacre.
They showed HAMAS terrorists stalking and slaughtering unarmed Israeli civilians that day-- from teenagers in their cars to adults in their homes to children under their beds.
Hagari said many the videos were obtained by the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) from the bodies of deceased HAMAS terrorists and from HAMAS social media posts. No camera were allowed in the auditorium for the screening.
The opening scenes of closed-circuit television footage show nothing but quiet at a Kibbutz. Terrorists break into a security office, then open fire at point blank range on a car pulling up the Kibbutz gate.
Terrorists shoot a black lab wagging his tongue near a large playground. They hunt families house-to-house, lighting one on fire. An Israeli watching from his home window is shot and killed.
The videos show HAMAS terrorists taking hostages, celebrating the death of an IDF soldier, and desecrating dead bodies with seeming glee.
One video features a terrorist repeatedly striking a dead body with a shovel, trying to decapitate it.
In another, obtained from a home security camera, a father and his two young sons were shown fleeing home into a shed in their backyard.
Several HAMAS terrorists enter the frame; one throws a grenade is thrown into the shed. After an explosion, the father’s body crumbles and the two young children, bloodied, one with only one functional eye remaining are shuttled back to the house.
Soon thereafter, their mother arrives with soldiers, as a battle is fought in front of her home. She sees the body of her husband and collapses in distress.
The IDF would not comment on whether the two young boys survived.
IDF Col. Richard Hecht said that, while they had found images of babies burned to death, and with their heads blown off or smashed, they wouldn't be showing them.
“Jews don’t show pictures of babies bodies with their heads cut off," he said.
"Their blood is on my hands"
The IDF played a phone call made by a terrorist from a victim’s cell phone, recorded using a call recording app.
"Dad. I am calling from a Jewish woman’s phone. I killed her and her husband. I killed 10 Jews. 10! 10! 10! 10 Jews with my bare hands. Their blood is on my hands," he says.
He again tells his father where he is, and to check WhatsApp to see those he killed.
“Let me talk to mom.”
He repeats his act and again tells her to see WhatsApp. She has a brief silence and asks her son to come home.
He tells her there is no going home.
She continues to ask him to return to Gaza, and he ends the call by saying he will.
The Israeli government press office sent a brief video for release.
They released a video with dash cam footage of HAMAS terrorists attacking Israelis in their cars as well as a HAMAS instructional manual found on the bodies of terrorists of Hamas terrorists after the massacre, detailing the offensive plans of Oct. 7 and a second instructional manual released details how to handle kidnapped Israelis.
"Kill anyone that may pose a threat or cause a distraction or disturbance," it says. "Bind the wrists or ankles of each hostage."
"Gather some of the hostages in the area and use them as cannon fodder, ensuring they are clearly visible," it says.