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The Hamas Pogrom of October 7
(Fathom-BICOM-UK) Suzan Quitaz - On October 23, I was invited to view footage of the Hamas pogrom of Oct. 7. The IDF decided not to release the video to the public out of respect for the victims and their families. In the video, I saw terrorists shouting in Arabic: "I swear to Allah, I just killed the coward Jew dog who was hiding under the table." That "Jew dog" was a young girl who was seen alive in the video hiding under a table. They shot her at close-range. I heard, "Give me a knife" and "pray to Allah to bless me with another Jew dog to kill." We saw homes soaked in blood, we saw beheaded people, people slaughtered with knives, young women who had been raped, and people burned beyond recognition. We saw CCTV footage of terrorists standing on roadways shooting at civilian cars. A car stops, terrorists surround it and continue shooting at close-range even when it's clear the occupants are already dead. In some cases, the occupants were pulled out of their cars and those who were still alive but badly injured were shot multiple times. We saw terrorists walking inside Jewish communities looking for people to kill, unsuspecting people, some still asleep or just woken up and having breakfast with loved ones. The terrorists peak into the windows to see if any Jews are there. They work their way through houses, shooting people trying to hide. We saw their terrified victims, people crying and begging the terrorists not to kill them. We saw a children's room soaked in blood. We saw babies, their tiny bodies covered with shots and others slaughtered with sharp objects. Major Ella Waweya, the deputy commander of the IDF's Arabic-language spokespersons' unit and an Israeli Arab Muslim, said, "What Hamas did is against Islam, against humanity, against everything a human being can think of. Hamas came to kill children, to kill women, and to kill the elderly. In which religion is that written? This is not in Islam. This is not humanity....This is not the war of Israel, this is the war of the whole world against Hamas-ISIS." The writer is a Kurdish-Iraqi journalist associated with the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.