The Israeli government has released video showing all of the footage they have gathered of Hamas' attack on October 7, some of it being described by journalists as among the most horrifying things they have ever seen. 

The video, which Israel gathered in the wake of the attack earlier this month, shows many of the scenes we've heard described in various media reports, but the screening is the first collection of footage released to an international group of journalists in an effort to show the world just how real, devastating, and monstrous the attack was.

I just saw indescribable, raw footage of Hamas’ massacre along with 100 other international journalists, provided by Israeli authorities. Here are the notes I took:

1: Hamas terrorist screaming Allah Akhbah as he frantically tries to behead a dead man with a shovel.

— Jotam Confino (@mrconfino) October 23, 2023

Israel is adamant that the world has to know what occurred on October 7.

Israeli government spokesman Eylon Levy said in a video posted on X before the release that the Israel Defense Forces have "been collecting footage from bodycams taken by the Hamas death squads," and that they would be making the footage public to maintain a record to counter those who doubt whether certain events took place.

"Now unfortunately, and I can't believe I'm saying this, and I can't believe that we as a country are having to do this as we work to defeat the terror organization that brutalized our people, we are witnessing a Holocaust denial-like phenomenon evolving in real time as people are casting doubt on the magnitude of the atrocities that Hamas committed against our people and, in fact, recorded in order to glorify that violence," he continued. 

The reactions of the journalists at the screening are being seen all over Twitter as the scope of the atrocities suddenly becomes very real for them. 

Hundreds of journalists and photographers from media companies all over the world attended today the screening of a film of assorted footage showing the extent of the horrors committed by Hamas.

Footage was taken from numerous sources, including from bodycams worn by the… pic.twitter.com/c2HRdI98Lh

— (((Emanuel Miller))) 🌻 (@emanumiller) October 23, 2023

Israel's Eylon Levy, quoted above, continued to stress the importance of the moment.

"Therefore... the Government Press Office will screen for foreign media gruesome and as yet unseen footage of the barbarities perpetrated against our people on October 7th," he explained. "This is footage that has not been made public. It will screen a compilation of raw and unedited footage from the October 7th Massacre for journalists who can stomach the horrific truth and want to report on what they saw." 

Footage:

A man in his underpants & his two children, also in underpants run screaming. Hamas enter, they throw a grenade & kill the father. The take the 2 kids - covered with their father's blood - into a room.

"Daddy's dead," sreams one. "It's not a prank. He's really dead."

— David Patrikarakos (@dpatrikarakos) October 23, 2023

The footage was released amid a flurry of mainstream outlets attempting to minimize the significance of the violence or attempting to paint Israel in an equal or even more negative light than Hamas.