Why do I keep writing about this? Because it matters. Because the people who lost their lives and their freedoms on that dark day deserve to have their stories told. We must continue to document what happened, whilst we fight against the lies and denial from those who wish to harm and delegitimise the people of Israel.
The British Parliament have released a 315 page comprehensive report on the October 7 massacre. It is an incredibly difficult read, but in my opinion essential, to bear witness to what took place on that terrible day, and to also understand the enemy that civilisation faces.
I challenge anybody to read the report and not be forever affected.
Our Report will hopefully permit people to see such denials and justifications for what they really are: a perversion of reason and rejection of human decency. We owe it to the victims and their grieving families to set down the ghastly, unvarnished truth about the sheer barbarism that Hamas and its terrorist allies unleashed on 7 October 2023.
The report is detailed and meticulously referenced. It should decisively put to bed any victim inversion or denial, but of course it won’t.
For those unable to read the harrowing 315 pages, I have tried to summarise it.
Preparations for the attack officially begin from 2021, involving a series of meetings that were held over two years where a small group of Hamas political and military leaders, including Yahya Sinwar and Mohammed Deif, agreed to avoid smaller skirmishes with Israel to conceal their intentions, conserve resources, and execute a large-scale deception. The 7 October attack by Hamas was meticulously planned and driven by Hamas’ commitment to the destruction of the Jewish State.
The Nova Music Festival, held near Kibbutz Re’im, became the deadliest site of the attacks, with over 370 people killed, most of them young attendees under 30 years old.
The attack began at 06:29 on the Jewish Sabbath and festival of Simchat Torah, with a massive rocket barrage sent by Hamas and allied groups. A total of 4,860 rockets were fired into Israel between October 7 – 9. A simultaneous premeditated attack resulting in 119 border breaches, using drones, snipers, and explosives.
Paragliders crossed the border by air while dinghies came in from the coast near Zikim Beach.
Hamas-led forces attacked 32 civilian communities causing widespread death and destruction. Entire families were slaughtered, homes destroyed, systematically looted and set on fire.
The youngest victim of 7 October was just 14 hours old – her mother had been shot whilst driving to the hospital to give birth and a bullet hit the baby girl’s leg whilst in utero.
At 9.45 Yarden Bibas, the father of Kfir Bibas (the youngest hostage taken at 9 months old) texts his sister that terrorists are inside his house. The Bibas family were all taken hostage by the Palestinian Mujahideen Brigades. Only Yarden survived captivity.
The Nova Music Festival, held near Kibbutz Re’im, became the deadliest site of the attacks, with over 370 people killed, most of them young attendees under 30 years old.
At the festival site those who stayed were gunned down in their hiding places under the stage, behind the bar, in mobile toilets and waste containers. About 50 to 60 per cent did not die at the festival site itself but were hunted down as they fled the attack.
Many were ambushed in their cars with automatic weapons fire and RPGs or were killed by grenades thrown into roadside rocket shelters where they had sought safety along the highway.
Statements from eyewitnesses confirmed multiple incidents of rape and gang rape, and the rape of corpses of women.
Hamas operatives strategically seized key junctions along Route 232, the main highway in the Gaza Envelope, killing anyone who tried to escape the massacre.
Civilians were targeted with calculated and unreserved precision. Victims, spanning all ages from infants to the elderly, were often shot at point-blank range, burned alive, or killed by grenades.
“I saw this beautiful woman with the face of an angel and 8 or 10 fighters beating and raping her. She was screaming ‘Stop it – already I’m going to die anyway from what you are doing, just kill me! When they finished, they were laughing and the last one shot her in the head.”
The attackers abducted 251 hostages, including civilians, soldiers, and corpses from various locations.
Women and girls were particularly vulnerable during the attacks. Reports detailed gang rapes, sexual mutilation, and assaults on both living and deceased victims. There was a pattern across various locations attacked on 7 October of “fully naked or partially naked bodies from the waist down [that] were recovered – mostly women – with hands tied and shot multiple times, often in the head.” This was particularly prevalent at the Nova Festival.
Survivors of the 7 October attacks witnessed brutal violence, and many survivors suffered from Post Traumatic Stress and extreme trauma. In early 2024, reports began to surface of a series of suicides among Nova Festival survivors. At a Knesset Hearing in November 2024, the Israeli Health and Social Welfare Ministries reported that 30 survivors of the Nova Festival were classed as high suicide risks, with over 100 survivors currently hospitalised and getting mental health treatment.
Part of the reason why the victims’ count for the 7 October attack took so long to determine was due to the condition of many of the bodies that arrived. For other individuals, after they were killed their bodies continued to be attacked and desecrated with postmortem burning, shooting, stabbing, stamping, kicking, and beheadings.
Militants booby trapped dead bodies with explosives in an attempt to cause maximum carnage. Bodies were stripped, tortured and desecrated.
In January 2024 Israeli intelligence dossiers provided evidence that two UNRWA employees kidnapped Israelis, two were tracked to the locations of mass shootings115 and others helped arm Hamas for the 7 October invasion.
Decapitations and attempted decapitations were uploaded to social media for a least three victims. In Kibbutz Nahal Oz, a Gazan civilian uploaded a video of himself attempting to decapitate the head of a Thai worker using a garden hoe.
At the COGAT base next to the Erez Crossing, Sgt. Adir Tahar was beheaded post-mortem and his decapitated head was taken to Gaza. Images in which individuals are seen standing on his decapitated body were uploaded to Telegram.
Of the 251 hostages abducted on 7 October, 41 of these were kidnapped deceased bodies. Senior IDF officials have also stated that they have intelligence which indicated that Hamas operatives received money for bringing whole bodies and partial remains back to Gaza.
Images showed an unidentified body tied to the back of a motorcycle, with the same body later pictured inside Gaza with Gazan civilians celebrating around it. The images were uploaded to Telegram with the caption “This is Abu Fulan, he brought the body of a settler to feed to his dogs.”
Some CCTV footage and testimony shows that both women and children ‘as young as 10’ were also amongst the civilians who took part in looting. Natali Yohanan, a resident of Kibbutz Nir Oz, gave testimony that while hiding in her safe room alongside her family, she heard a group of Gazans, including a woman, make themselves comfortable in her home after looting the house and killing the family dog.
Of the 210 hostages kidnapped alive, 119 were male and 91 were women. Women and children (children aged 0-17) accounted for 102 of the 210 hostages taken alive, nearly half.
As of March 18, three days ago, 2025, Israeli authorities report that 59 individuals are still held captive in Gaza. Among these, it is believed that 35 are deceased.
“The All-Party Parliamentary Group (AAPG) on UK-Israel has produced an invaluable, if harrowing report. Focusing on two days 7-8 October 2023, it meticulously documents the grisly fates of the 1,182 people killed by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. In view of the speed and cynicism with which these organisations and their supports sought to deny the massacre, the APPG has performed a vital service by providing such an irrefutable record of terrorists’ crimes of homicide, rape, kidnapping and torture. As the report notes, this was “the largest single massacre of Jewish people since the Holocaust.” Those who wish to understand the repulsive, pathological nature of anti-Semitism should read the report. Those who doubt the truly evil character of Hamas and PIJ must read it”
Sir Niall Ferguson
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Shove this in the face of Francesca Albanese and don’t let her move until she reads it all.
Islam… ruining lives and creating mentally stunted barbarians for 1400 years and counting