All around him, the Chief Rabbi of France, Haïm Korsia, sees the clinical signs of post-traumatic stress manifesting in those close to him. People are calling him, very excited, unable to sleep, angry at the flood of barbaric videos circulating on social networks that they have been confronted with since the start of the Hamas attack on Israel. “They are affected by a violent disorder, their body acts as a protective shield against these unthinkable events,” he says. It’s one thing to know someone is dead, it’s another to see pictures of their charred body on Twitter [renommé X]. »
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He protects himself from the images – “I haven’t seen the worst yet” – and tries to dissuade those around him from looking at them. “But it’s difficult to keep children away from it,” he notes. Because the inherent violence of the massacres of the weekend of October 7th and 8th is compounded by the vast amount of videos documenting them. “We have never seen a terrorist attack with so many images available,” assures Philippe Corbé, editorial director of BFM-TV. Thousands of small filmed moments come at us from all directions. »
Bodies of elderly people lying in front of a bus stop or young women shot dead in their cars, bloody cradles, charred bodies of children, videos of the wounded shot at close range, parents carrying dead babies in their arms in the middle of bombed landscapes : All of these scenes flow unfiltered onto the Internet.
Indiscriminate brutality and clinical documentation
Palestinian Hamas deliberately manufactures them as another weapon in its repertoire of terror, and has even added men to its commandos responsible for portraying the killings. Or use your victim’s Facebook account to livestream his execution. On the Israeli side, the images are being collected and shared en masse as evidence of the blind brutality that has befallen the country.
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An Israeli Telegram channel publishes around twenty videos every day that were recorded at the site of the atrocities. There is a documentary page that is as clinical as the content is breathtaking: the date, time and a descriptive summary are given below each. “Unfortunately, a terrorist squad managed to enter the barracks of several Thai farm workers and massacre them. “In this video we can see pictures of these barracks,” one can read, for example. Or even “a group of Hamas terrorists attacks an Israeli civilian next to a bomb shelter next to the Nova festival.” After taking out their first victim, the terrorists discover that people are hiding in the bunker into which they placed a grenade before shooting those who try to escape. » In another post, the channel’s creators hope that “the world can see the true horrors that take place here.”
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