Israel releases discovered footage of Hamas operatives torturing Palestinians

The Israel Defense Forces this week released footage that they have found inside Gaza showing Hamas terrorists torturing Palestinian civilians. 

“The same civilians that Hamas outspokenly claimed to be fighting for, are the same civilians being tortured in this video,” the IDF said in a post, according to The Daily Wire. 

“Hamas is not only Israel’s enemy—they’re Gaza’s enemy also,” the post added.

The years’ worth of CCTV footage of Hamas torturing Palestinians was discovered by IDF troops operating in the Gaza Strip since the October 7, 2023, terrorist attack into Israel in which Hamas brutally killed, raped and tortured about 1,200 people and took 251 hostage.

The IDF said that the footage captured was from a two-year period, 2018-2020, and it exposes “Hamas’s brutal methods for interrogating civilians, violating human rights and systematically oppressing residents suspected of opposing the organization’s rule,” according to The Times of Israel. 

“The videos document Hamas activities at Outpost 17 in the Gaza Strip, where brutal interrogations of civilians suspected of opposing Hamas are conducted,” the Israeli government said, adding that “These materials reveal the Hamas’s methods of governing the Gaza Strip, enforcing terror, harming Gaza’s civilians and infringing on their freedom of expression.”

Before the IDF released it, the Daily Mail published a report on the footage, saying it was found on a computer in Jabalia, in northern Gaza, in March of this year.

An unnamed IDF source told the paper that it took “months” to comb through all of the footage. What they chose to publish was a 45-minute compilation of some of the material, which The Times of Israel chose not to publish.