The videos underscore the violence on the part of both terrorists and run-of-the-mill Gazans that spurred Israel’s war against Hamas
Previously unseen footage from Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacres shows both members of the terror group and Gazan civilians kidnapping women and children from a kibbutz in southern Israel, underscoring how jihadists and their allies systematically targeted Jews as they slaughtered more than 1,200 on this day two years ago.
The videos taken from Kibbutz Be’eri—located just two miles from the Gaza Strip—are a stark reminder of Hamas’s rape, immolation, and kidnapping of civilians solely for being Jewish. After two years of war and an international pressure campaign falsely accusing Israel of genocide, the brutal details of that day are still coming into focus.
Armed Hamas militants, supported by Gazan civilians who stormed into Israel, can be seen in one of the newly released videos, published by Foundation for Defense of Democracies senior research analyst Joe Truzman, herding a woman and two small children at gunpoint.
Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7, 2023:
Hamas members infiltrated the kibbutz near the Gaza border. The footage shows them forcibly taking one adult and two children hostage, as armed Hamas members and accompanying Palestinians overrun the community. pic.twitter.com/mzT5L5OsUk
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) October 6, 2025
In a second clip, Hamas gunmen corral three adults, a young girl, and a toddler. As the Israelis are ushered away, a Hamas commander is seen kissing one of the children on his head.
Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7, 2023:
In this footage, Hamas and other armed Palestinians kidnapped three adults, a child, and a toddler. A man, I believe to be a Hamas commander, kisses one of the children on the side of the head. pic.twitter.com/dQl4e6N6of
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) October 7, 2025
“In Hamas’s distorted worldview, the atrocities of October 7 are not a moral abomination but a triumph to be emulated,” Truzman told the Washington Free Beacon. “If the Islamist group continues to rule Gaza, it all but ensures that it will regroup, rearm, and prepare for the next onslaught. No sovereign state would tolerate such a menace festering on its border. Israel has every right and the obligation to ensure that it never happens again.”
In a third video, a Palestinian man in civilian clothing binds the wrists of an Israeli woman. The Palestinians murdered the woman in cold blood shortly after the video was taken, according to information Truzman published on X.
Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7, 2023:
A person is taken hostage by two Palestinians. The person’s wrists are bound by a plain clothed Palestinian while a second armed person holds her. This hostage was murdered after this video was recorded. pic.twitter.com/kp9NzhMVF8
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) October 6, 2025
Several other clips show at least four others forcibly taken from their homes in Kibbutz Be’eri with their hands bound behind them. All four were later “executed by terrorists who infiltrated the Israeli community that morning,” according to Truzman.
Civilians can be seen in subsequent videos struggling against armed Hamas gunmen, at least one of whom met his demise during Israeli operations in Gaza.
October 7, 2023:
Another video of the horrors committed by Hamas and its allies in southern Israel. Armed Palestinians, some belonging to Hamas, forcibly abducted two civilians from their home.
One of the civilians was murdered after this video was taken. Also, I can confirm… pic.twitter.com/ArgRvJd01i
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) October 6, 2025
“This new footage just underlines the inhumane barbarism behind the Hamas massacres of Oct. 7,” a former Israeli defense official who reviewed the footage told the Free Beacon. “Middle-aged women massacred in cold blood. Kids kidnapped from their beds in their soccer kits and PJs. Palestinian civilians watching on and celebrating—and in some cases taking part. It’s sick.”
As Israel mourns on the two-year anniversary of Hamas’s brutal terror campaign, Arab mediators are pressing the terror group to accept the terms of President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan. Talks are expected to conclude later this week, potentially laying the groundwork for the remaining 48 Israeli hostages to return home. It remains unclear, however, if Hamas will agree to disarm and vacate the Gaza Strip.
On the second anniversary of the attacks, Senators Joni Ernst (R., Iowa) and John Fetterman (D., Pa.) introduced a bipartisan resolution—cosponsored by the entirety of the Senate Republican Conference—to mark the occasion.
The resolution condemns Hamas, its use of rape as a weapon of war, and anti-Semitic protests in the United States. It also “supports an outcome to the conflict” that ensures Israel’s continued existence, the destruction of Hamas’s capacity to govern Gaza, and the safe release of all hostages remaining in the terror group’s captivity, including U.S. citizens Itay Chen and Omer Neutra.
