(USA Today) Ingrid Jacques - A week ago, I saw raw footage of Hamas' slaughter on Oct. 7. I can't get the images out of my head. For those who have played down - or refused to believe - the atrocities that Hamas committed that day, this video should be required viewing. Hamas terrorists filmed their own barbarism through body cameras and cellphones, and much of "Bearing Witness" comes directly from that footage. They wanted to preserve the brutal murders on camera, and they were gleeful as they inflicted unspeakably evil acts on innocent civilians. When I arrived at the screening, everyone was uptight about what we would witness. For the next 45 minutes, we sat mostly in silence as Hamas' brutality passed before our eyes. Some in the audience looked stunned. Some cried. I felt sick. Everyone stayed, though. I knew it would be hard to watch, but I hadn't expected the sheer horror and torture that these innocent Israelis - men, women and children - had endured. Two beheadings were shown in full - one done with a garden hoe, the other with a crude knife. The terrorists were ecstatic while committing these barbaric acts. Unsuspecting civilians were slaughtered while driving past, dragged out of their cars and left to bleed in the streets. At the end of the video, we were told we had witnessed about 10% of the killings. Hamas is not a liberation group, as some have claimed. They are genocidal terrorists. This evil - what I saw with my own eyes - must not win.
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