Israel is organizing showings for media around the world of a compilation of footage of Hamas’s October 7 massacre of 1,400 people in southern Israel, assembled from raw material sourced from victims and perpetrators alike.

The harrowing 44-minute montage has been shown at the UN in New York and Geneva, in Washington, Berlin, Brussels, Madrid and the Chilean capital Santiago, with a further screening in Paris for the press on Tuesday. It has also been shown to Israeli lawmakers in a closed-door session at the Knesset, with some leaving in tears, and was first shown two weeks ago to some 200 members of the foreign press in Israel.

“We’ve screened this film in about 30 countries. We think it’s important that people… know what happened on October 7,” said Hen Feder, spokesman for the Israeli embassy in France.

The devastating attack by the Palestinian terror group on Israel on October 7 killed 1,400 people, 1,000 of them civilians. Some 3,000 Hamas-led terrorists burst through the Gaza border and rampaged through southern areas for hours. Entire families were butchered together, in some cases burned alive in their homes. People were executed, women raped, and innumerable victims tortured in acts of monstrous brutality. At an outdoor music festival, 260 people were gunned down. At least 240 people of all ages — from babies to the elderly — were abducted to Gaza, where they remain captive.

It was the worst attack on Israel since its 1948 founding and the worst single-day killing of Jewish people since the Holocaust.

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