The Israeli military invited 100 journalists to watch a 43-minute compilation of what they describe as “raw footage” of the atrocities carried out by Hamas in southern Israel on 7 October, which left more than 1,400 Israelis dead and over 200 taken hostage.

The idea was to counter any denial by international media about what Hamas did that day, and to lend justification to how hard Israel is hitting back. No cameras were allowed into the screening, and there’s no way to independently verify any of the images shown, but here’s what BBC World correspondent Jotam Confino says he saw:

2: A father and two sons (roughly 7 & 9) running for their lives in their underwear into what appears to be a bomb shelter with an open entrance. A Hamas terrorist throws a hand grenade into shelter, killing the father, and badly injuring the two sons who run back into the house

— Jotam Confino (@mrconfino) October 23, 2023

3: Hamas terrorists enter a house, where a small girl is seen hiding under the table. After some talking back and forth they shoot and kill her as she hides under the table. Hard to say how old she is but looks like 7-9 years old.

— Jotam Confino (@mrconfino) October 23, 2023

7: Scores of dead people on the road after Hamas executed them in their cars. Yelling Allahu Akhbah.

8: Hamas terrorist calling his parents: “I killed 10 Jews with my own hands. I’m using the dead Jewish woman’s phone to call you now.” The mother says “May god protect you.”

— Jotam Confino (@mrconfino) October 23, 2023

2 continued: The two sons are screaming for their dad, saying they are gonna die. A Hamas terrorist casually and calmly takes a bottle of water from the family’s fridge and drinks it as the two boys weep.

— Jotam Confino (@mrconfino) October 23, 2023

4: Hamas terrorists setting fire to a house in a kibbutz.

5: A beheaded Israeli soldier.

6: Photo of dead baby and child burned beyond recognition.

— Jotam Confino (@mrconfino) October 23, 2023

So many more scenes but I hope you get the gist. The authorities asked is not to film the screening out of respect for the relatives of the Israeli victims. If anyone has any doubt about what happened, I truly don’t know what to say anymore.

— Jotam Confino (@mrconfino) October 23, 2023

Officials said the compilation drew on footage taken from cameras worn by the attackers, mobile phones – both from the militants and their victims – as well as CCTV and car dashboard cameras. It serves as a useful reminder that there are thousand of innocent victims on both sides of the war, and that if you condemn one side then you must surely condemn the other for committing similar atrocities.

I’ve got a feeling that this compilation that the 100 journalists watched will end up online sooner rather than later, but personally I’m not too sure I can watch the things described in Jotam Confino’s Tweets above. It’s awful enough reading about it, let alone having it burned into your visual memory. As unlikely as it sounds, let’s hope some there’s some kind of resolution at the end of this war that minimises the death toll on innocent civilians.

For the group of men with England flags who turned up to the pro-Palestine march in London at the weekend, click HERE.