'Will not let world forget': Israel screens raw footage of Hamas brutal massacre

Bloodied corpses lying in a bedroom, a bathroom, on the roads by their cars. An emergency medical worker pouring mineral water from a bottle to douse the smoldering remains of charred bodies. A dead baby whose body bore signs of violence. Two soldiers without heads. Brutalised young women, one of them naked. Captives in the Gaza Strip surrounded by jeering assailants. Those images were part of nearly 44 minutes of

raw footage

that the Israeli military said was culled from hundreds of hours of material Israel had collected about the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas assailants from Hamas body cameras, dashcams, traffic cameras, CCTV and the phones and social media accounts of victims, soldiers and emergency medical workers.
The military showed the compilation to foreign reporters on a day when Israel continued to bombard Gaza with heavy airstrikes overnight and as the death toll in Gaza surpassed 5,000 people, according to the Hamas-run health ministry, since Israel began retaliating for the attacks.
"We want to understand ourselves why we are in a war and what we are fighting for," Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, the chief military spokesperson, said of the footage, which was shown in an auditorium at an army base north of Tel Aviv. "What happened to Israel was not just a war crime," he said, but "a crime against humanity." Hagari said it was necessary to begin gathering the evidence to create a collective memory for future generations of what happened that day, which was the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust. "We will not let the world forget," he said. "It will define who we are."