We’ve spent so much time focused on the captives taken by Hamas on October 7— and rightly so — but it’s easy to ignore that they weren’t the only subjects on that terrible moment. At least another 1, 141 people died in less than 48 hours between October 7 and October 8, 2023, and the more we learn about it, the more horrible it gets.  ,
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Chaired by House of Lords member and British historian and journalist Lord Andrew Roberts, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on UK-Israel recently released a 318-page” 7 October Parliamentary Commission Report”, something that’s been called” the most detailed Western investigation to date into the Hamas-led attack on Israel” . ,
It states that the entire attack was” a meticulously planned operation designed not only to kill but to terrorize through extreme brutality, looting and humiliation” . ,
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Groups of women and women were raped before and after their deaths. Kids were shot in their walkers or buried dead. Dead were lined with explosives so that those who tried to help were killed or maimed. The jihadists played mind game, using the victims ‘ phones to deliver messages to their friends and family or post ugly videos of the harm to the victims ‘ social media pages. They looted. They set flames. They brought batons together, not to use as weapons, but to dismember and destroy bodies for enjoyment.  ,
Even those who survived went through hell. At only 16 centuries old, Rotem Matias was shot by the shot that killed his mother. Hamas jihadists laughed as he bled, and he listened to the cries of his parents as they murdered him. When they left, he hid under his mother’s dead and was rescued 10 days later by the Israeli Defense Forces. ( You can watch him tell his story below. )  ,
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Meet Rotem Matias. Rotem is 16 years old and both of his relatives were murdered on 10/7/23. When Hamas jihadists stormed Kibbutz Holit, they broke into the Matias house and opened fire on the house, spraying shots through the windows. Rotem’s father stood with a chisel and therefore … photograph. twitter.com/h9hQuDZHZ9— Montana Tucker ( @montanatucker ) October 16, 2024
Israel President Isaac Herzog had this to say about the document:  ,
On the last five webpages of this amazing and complete document, each specific murdered on October 7th is properly listed by name and age. This moving gift follows the 311 earlier pages which history in thus-far unprecedented scrutiny and detail, the atrocities committed by Hamas and other Arab terrorists on that gloomy day. It reflects on how the attack was premeditated, and designed to kill and kidnap, rape and mutilate, murder and maim as many innocent people as possible. This independent and brutally honest report by the UKs 7 October Parliamentary Commission Report, chaired by the renowned historian Lord Roberts, is not only a vital record for history, but a must-read for all. I welcome and greatly appreciate this historic work, and hope and pray that the final chapter in this dark period may soon be written with the return of all our sisters and brothers held in brutal captivity, and the safe return of all our citizens to their homes.
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Herzog is right, the intention was to kill, rape, and mutilate as many innocent people as possible without discrimination. Seventy-three percent of those murdered were civilians. These people are animals.  ,
The youngest victim hadn’t been born yet — her mother was on the way to the hospital when she was shot in the stomach, the bullet hitting the baby’s leg. The little girl survived 14 hours outside the womb before succumbing to her injuries.  ,
The oldest appears to be 91-year-old Moshe Ridler. The grandfather of eighteen had survived Hitler and the Holocaust only to be taken out by Hamas. He was born in Romania and sent at the age of nine to a concentration camp, where his mother and sisters were murdered. He eventually moved to Israel in 1951, joining the police force and focusing on building a big family like the one the Nazis robbed him of in his youth. He loved to dance and travel, and, according to his grandson, was known as the “grandfather of Holit”, which refers to the Holit kibbutz where he lived.  ,
Lord Roberts told Fox News Digital that” We actually made the report much less than it could have been, because we insisted on only putting things in that could be double-checked. If we had put in things that we truly believe happened but couldn’t prove happened, we kept them out”. He also called the terrorist attack “premeditated bloodlust” and said he was inspired to create the report because of the many who try to downplay the attack or even deny it.  ,
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If you decide to read the report or even skim it, I’ll warn you that it will make you sick to your stomach. Just when you think what you’ve heard about that day can’t get any worse, it does.  ,
