‘Some of the audience whispered ”make it stop”. I leaned against a wall and cried’: Journalists who watched Israeli compilation of Hamas terror footage – including a young girl shot dead at she hid under a desk – reveal how it left them horrified

Journalists who attended an IDF screening of a 45-minute montage of Hamas killing, torturing and kidnapping Israeli civilians have told of the horrors they faced.

The lengthy compilation, composed of material recorded by Hamas gunmen on bodycams and smartphones, was shown by the IDF yesterday to a closed group of journalists in Tel Aviv.

A Breitbart journalist said audience members began crying as they sat in their seats, while others wailed “make it stop” after a few minutes.

“There is no moment of redemption in the images,” he said.

“After the video was shot, we were allowed to go outside to pick up our equipment… I had to sit down. I leaned against a wall and cried.”

Another journalist from The Atlantic said some spectators gagged and gasped – a violent, involuntary response to the level of evil and bloodshed on display.

“I certainly hope I never see the extra footage again,” he wrote.

For all intents and purposes, the footage was filled with fragment after fragment of civilians being shot, stabbed, tortured and burned.

Their corpses were positioned for all to see: bound, gagged and riddled with bullet holes and knife wounds.

Others were beheaded with knives – and one soul was partially decapitated with a garden hoe as he lay with a gunshot wound to his stomach.

And a young girl was seen hiding under a desk, waiting while the terrorists decided what her fate would be. A little later they decided to shoot her at close range.

The full, unedited footage will not be shared with the public, Israel says, unless all families of those killed view it and give their consent. This means it’s unlikely the entire clip will ever be released to the world.

But the IDF did release a new snippet of footage captured by a Hamas gunman’s bodycam during the terror group’s brutal Oct. 7 attacks.

The clip showed the gunman, brandishing his AK-47 assault rifle, ordering some Israelis driving slowly along the road to stop their car.

Without giving the driver a second to comply, the gunman immediately begins firing rounds into the vehicle from just a few feet away, and the passengers are seen recoiling from the rounds in the cabin as the car rolls by.

According to descriptions from journalists who attended the private screening, one clip showed Hamas’ moment terrorist threw a grenade at a father and his son.

The explosion kills the father, who lunges forward into the turf, while the young boy is covered in blood.

The child is dragged in and forced to sit next to his brother, whose eye is a bloody mess – either from shrapnel from the grenade blast or from torture.

One of the boys sobs: ‘Why am I alive?’ while the ruthless terrorists stand by his father’s body.

Another dark piece of footage showed unsuspecting IDF soldiers being beheaded as their headless corpses lay in the street, while a contingent of female soldiers was taken out by a grenade before being shot at close range.

The journalists also said they witnessed sheer panic, terror and destruction at the Nova music festival, where more than 250 civilians were massacred.

Some victims hid in containers, others in portable toilets, but all were found and shot or brutally beaten before being taken hostage.

Meanwhile, in an audio clip, a Hamas gunman is heard bragging to his family about “murdering ten Jews” after stealing the phone of one of his victims.

In the conversation recorded by the victim’s phone, the terrorist chillingly boasts that he is “a hero” after killing Israelis with his “own hands.”

His parents, who do not have the same enthusiasm, beg him to come back to Gaza, but their son tells them he is committed to “victory or martyrdom.” The latter turned out to be the end result.

The release of the images was announced by government spokesman Eylon Levy as a counter to what he said is a “Holocaust denial-like phenomenon” amid the backlash to Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.

“The IDF has collected bodycam footage taken by Hamas death squads as they rampaged through communities in southern Israel, slaughtering everyone they encountered,” Levy said.

‘I can’t believe I’m saying this… As we work to defeat the terrorist organization, we are witnessing a phenomenon similar to Holocaust denial unfolding in real time as people cast doubt on the extent of the atrocities committed by Hamas against our terrorist organization. people and actually recorded to glorify this violence.”

Israel has refused to give up its brutal bombing of Gaza, even as Hamas released two elderly Israeli women taken in the October 7 attacks.

Israeli Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi suggested that Israel has no intention of curbing its attacks, stating: “We want to bring Hamas to a state of complete dismantling.

“We are well prepared for the ground operations in the south,” he added, referring to a long-awaited ground invasion of Gaza by the Israeli army.

“Troops that have more time are better prepared, and that’s what we’re doing now.”

Hamas has repeatedly offered to release hostages on the condition that Israel stops its bombing of Gaza, which has reportedly killed more than 5,000 Palestinians since October 7.

But Israel has refused to negotiate, has launched so far unsuccessful attacks across the border in an attempt to rescue hostages and has stated that Gaza will continue to defy the bombs until all hostages are freed.

The IDF claimed it struck more than 400 militant targets in Gaza overnight and killed dozens of Hamas fighters, including three deputy battalion commanders.

The armed forces said among the targets hit was a tunnel allowing Hamas to infiltrate Israel from the sea and Hamas command centers in mosques.

But the Ramallah-based Palestinian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that more than 120 Palestinians were killed in the overnight attacks, including at a coastal refugee camp.