The Israeli government will release raw, unedited footage of the Hamas attacks against the Jewish state on Monday.
Israeli government spokesman Eylon Levy said in a post to X, formerly Twitter, on Sunday that the footage from the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks will come from Hamas death squads' body cameras.
The Israeli Defense Forces have been collecting footage from the body cameras as Hamas "rampaged through the communities in southern Israel, butchering everyone in sight."
"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," Levy said.
Levy said the Government Press Office will screen for foreign media "gruesome and as yet unseen footage of the barbarities" from Oct. 7 at 11:30 a.m. Israeli time (or 4:30 a.m. EDT). The footage has not been made public, Levy said.
More than 1,400 people have been killed in Israel since the war began, mostly civilians killed in the initial Hamas attack. The Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza is reporting that over 4,300 Palestinians have been killed, per the Associated Press.
Israeli forces have detained over 700 suspects in the West Bank, including 480 members of Hamas, since the start of hostilities, the Jewish state reported. The Gaza-based terrorist group kidnapped more than 200 people during the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in southern Israel.
Israel warned Palestinians in the northern part of Gaza last week to evacuate the area ahead of a possible invasion. National security adviser Jake Sullivan said last week that Hamas was preventing United States citizens from fleeing Gaza into Egypt.
The United States is reportedly pressing Israel to delay its ground invasion of Gaza to allow for the release of more hostages held by Hamas, according to CNN. Two American hostages, Judith Tai Raanan and Natalie Shoshana Raanan, were released by the militant group to the Red Cross on Friday thanks to efforts from Qatar, which is serving as a middleman between the U.S. and Hamas.
However, Israeli officials are denying that the U.S. is seeking a delay.
“We deny this report. We have a close dialogue and consultations with the U.S. administration. The U.S. is not pressing Israel in regards to the ground operation,” the official said via CNN.
On NBC News’s Meet the Press on Sunday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he was “hopeful” that more hostages would be released, “but the bottom line is this — they need to be released. Each and every one of them, now, unconditionally.”
This article was originally published by The Washington Examiner.
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