Graphic warning: Some descriptions of violence in this post may be upsetting.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released one minute of footage from a 43-minute film they compiled which appeared to show in gruesome detail some of the atrocities that Hamas committed in the shocking October 7 attack against Israel.
CNN first saw the film on October 16 as one of a dozen invited journalists. The IDF screened it again for a wider audience on Monday and released the excerpt afterward.
One-minute footage: The clip includes dashcam footage from a car driving northward on a highway just outside of Re’im, Israel — near the Nova music festival grounds — at 7:39 a.m. local time. The video has no audio. Suddenly, an armed man is seen standing in the street, and the car slows as he shoots at the car. New bodycam footage, which the IDF said was taken off a Hamas fighter, shows the fighters shooting into the car.
The dashcam footage shows the car continuing to move up the road slowly as bullets are fired into the vehicle, its windshield showing some of the strikes. At least 10 more fighters open fire on the vehicle until it finally stops, crashing into another car. The fate of those in the car is unknown.
Additional bodycam footage shows the fighters then inspecting the car. Additional dashcam footage shows fighters firing into the car, in an apparent attempt to make sure the people in it were killed.
The IDF said it knew the videos were authentic because they matched physical remains or because they recognized people in them. CNN has not independently verified the videos. The IDF provided only one minute of the 43 minutes of footage, some of which has already circulated on social media.
What is in the 43-minute film: IDF spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said the video was assembled from hundreds of hours of footage from Hamas body cameras, cell phone footage and social media, victims’ and responders’ phone footage and security camera videos.
The film, which the IDF said was in rough chronological order, began with the clip described above. Some of the footage merely implied the violence that had gone before, such as tracks of blood going through a house that suggested a body had been dragged.
There were multiple sections filmed by responders that showed burned bodies, including two incinerated in the back of a burned-out car, and another where the rescuer is heard counting the corpses: “One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.”
One segment which the IDF said came from social media showed a woman with her hands bound behind her back being pulled out of the back of a Jeep and forced into the vehicle’s back seat by a group of about half a dozen men shouting. Signs in Arabic on buildings around the car suggest it was in Gaza. It is not possible to see what happens to the woman once she is in the back seat.
Another segment showed bound men being shoved or hauled into the back of a pickup truck.
Several videos show terrified people filming themselves, including a man at the Nova music festival and a group of young women apparently being guarded by a Hamas gunman. The IDF said the women were soldiers.
The video included many corpses, some of which were bound, gagged or mutilated. It concluded with a scene of body bags in a tent at the Nova music festival, where about 260 people were killed.
