The Israel Defense Forces released audio of a call between a Hamas terrorist and his family in Gaza. In the course of the phone call the terrorist is heard bragging that he “killed Jews” “with my own hands!”
The recording, which the IDF publicly released on Tuesday afternoon, was captured after the operative called his father from a murdered Israeli woman’s phone.
“Open my WhatsApp now, and you’ll see all those killed. Look how many I killed with my own hands! Your son killed Jews!” the terrorist boasts to his father as the elder interjects with repeated references to “Allahu Akhbar!”
“Dad, I’m talking to you from a Jewish woman’s phone. I killed her and I killed her husband. I killed ten with my own hands!” The claim, once again, leads the father to praise his son with calls of “Allahu Akhbar!”
“Dad, I killed ten! Ten! Ten with my own hands. Their blood is on their hands,” the terrorist screams as he insists his father pass the phone to his mother to share the news.
His mother offers only affirmative words after hearing her son’s admission of killing ten civilians. “May God bring you home safely,” the woman says. “I wish I was with you.” Another man soon joins the conversation, where the details are celebratorily rehashed.
“I killed ten, Alaa. Ten with my own hands. I’m talking to you from a Jew’s phone.”
The admission leads the man to ask for clarification, which the terrorist answers in the affirmative. After his brother tells him to come home, the terrorist rejects the request.
“What do you mean come back? There is no going back. It’s either death or victory. My mother gave birth to me for the religion, Alaa.”
On Monday, the IDF screened nearly an hour’s worth of first-hand gruesome footage of the October 7 atrocities for media in Israel at a military base north of Tel Aviv. “What we shared with you,” an Israeli major general overseeing the proceedings told journalists, “you should know it.”
“We are not looking for kids to kill them,” the soldier added. “We have to share it with you so no one will have an idea that someone is equal to another.”
Graeme Wood, a journalist who attended the “grisly matinee screening,” wrote for the Atlantic about the nature of the videos shared, although no cameras were permitted to record them.
“Some of the clips had been circulating already on social media in truncated or expurgated form, with the footage decorously stopped just before beheadings and moments of death. After having seen them both in raw and trimmed forms, I can endorse the decision to trim those clips. I certainly hope I never see any of the extra footage again.”