Horror in pictures. A video of the massacres committed by Hamas commandos on October 7 on Israeli territory will be shown on Tuesday to a small group of parliamentarians of the French National Assembly, a deputy announced on Friday. The broadcast is offered to the 120 MPs who are members of the France-Israel friendship group, its president, Mathieu Lefèvre, at the origin of the initiative, told AFP.
This is the film of approximately three quarters of an hour made by the Israeli authorities from extracts from the cameras and phones of Hamas fighters, killed or taken prisoner, and images captured by victims and rescuers. It shows images of killings and tortured corpses of adults and children.
Phones prohibited
“Obviously, telephones will be banned and there will be no collaborators”, only deputies, he specifies, without knowing at this stage how many elected officials will wish to watch this film, described as unbearable by those who watch it. have viewed. “It is important to be able to continue to bear witness, current events are often unfortunately swept away quite quickly and we must be able to continue to bear witness to the unspeakable, nothing would be worse than forgetting,” argued Mathieu Lefèvre .
Israel has already broadcast these images in Israel and New York. They were screened on Tuesday in Paris to around fifty journalists, invited by the Israeli embassy in France, which explained that it wanted to show the media the sometimes diminished reality of the massacre. “It seems legitimate to me that parliamentarians can also have access to it,” says Mathieu Lefèvre, of the presidential Renaissance party, explaining that he contacted the Israeli embassy to be able to organize a screening at the Assembly.
Among the images in the film are those of armed men massacring civilians, notably in Kibbutz Beeri, where 85 people were killed and 26 taken hostage. Others show Hamas members mowing down young people fleeing a music festival, where more than 270 people died.