by Andrew Roberts, Telegraph
The myriad atrocities were filmed, and yet the terrorists denied them within hours – why should we now trust they will disarm?
As the Red Army closed in on Auschwitz, the Nazis blew up the crematoria to hide the atrocities they had committed. Almost 80 years later on Oct 7, 2023, the day that saw more Jews murdered than on any other since the Holocaust, Hamas did the opposite.
In his own handwritten directive, recovered by Israeli intelligence, Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader on whose instructions the massacre was carried out, ordered his fighters to film their killing and broadcast it to spread terror. His men obeyed him to the letter: GoPro cameras strapped to their chests, they filmed themselves gleefully slaughtering, burning, and raping the Israeli citizens, young and old, of southern Israel, and uploaded the footage in real time.
In three decades writing about war, I have rarely encountered an atrocity documented in such detail. The 7 October Parliamentary Commission Report which I chaired, and the evidence that underpins it, runs to more than 300 pages. The Civil Commission on October 7 Crimes by Hamas Against Women and Children, an independent panel that reported in May 2026, has documented the sexual violence in similarly forensic detail.
Yet the same organisation that broadcast its own atrocities in real time began denying the specifics within hours. Three years on, those Hamas leaders yet to be brought to justice not only maintain their defiant denial but have moved from marginal figures discarded by the movement to the men now leading it.
Read also: Gaza: the most lied about war in history by Brendan O’Neill, spiked. Finally, on the third anniversary of 7 October, the left’s empire of falsehoods against Israel is starting to crumble.
The children of October 7 by Jonathon Van Maren, The Bridgehead
Reflections on Israel and October 7 by Bill Muehlenberg