Unveiling October 7: UK report details Hamas brutality and fight against denial

Nearly a year and a half after the war began, and with an Israeli state commission of inquiry still a distant prospect, the most comprehensive report on the events of October 7 has been published - but not in Israel. British lawmakers on Tuesday released a detailed, 315-page report describing the massacre committed by Hamas and other terrorist organizations on what has come to be known as "Black Saturday."

“The purpose of this report is to clearly and accurately document the events of October 7, to ensure they are never forgotten,” said Lord Andrew Roberts, the historian who served as the lead author. In his introduction to the report, Roberts wrote: "Holocaust denial took a few years to take root in pockets of society, but on 7 October 2023 it took only hours for people to claim that the massacres in southern Israel had not taken place. Hamas and its allies, both in the Middle East and equally shamefully in the West, have sought to deny the atrocities, despite the ironic fact that much of the evidence for the massacres derives from film footage from cameras carried by the terrorists themselves."

Roberts said that the report "has been undertaken to counter such pernicious views and to lay down incontrovertible proof." “Nearly 1,200 innocent people were indeed murdered by Hamas and its allies, and very often in scenes of sadistic barbarism not seen in world history since the Rape of Nanjing in 1937,” he wrote, referring to the Japanese army’s mass killing and rape campaign in China, where hundreds of thousands of civilians were murdered and tens of thousands of women were raped.

The report was produced by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on UK-Israel, which includes members of the British Parliament and House of Lords, following more than a year of research and writing. Among its findings: 18 British citizens were killed on October 7, the highest number of Britons killed in a terrorist attack outside the UK since 9/11.

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According to the report, 7,000 terrorists infiltrated Israel on October 7, murdering 1,182 people, injuring more than 4,000 and abducting 251 — 210 alive and 41 whose bodies were taken. “This was the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust and the deadliest terror attack relative to population size — one in every 10,000 Israelis was killed,” the report said, describing it as the third-largest terror attack ever.

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