Watch: Video Raises Awareness of Oct. 7 Massacre for Non-Israelis, Asking, ‘What If It Were You?’
The Israeli Embassy in the United Kingdom has released a new video designed to raise awareness of the Hamas terror...
The post Watch: Video Raises Awareness of Oct. 7 Massacre for Non-Israelis, Asking, ‘What If It Were You?’ first appeared on Algemeiner.com.
An aerial view shows the bodies of victims of an attack following a mass infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip lying on the ground in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, in southern Israel, Oct. 10, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Ilan Rosenberg
The Israeli Embassy in the United Kingdom has released a new video designed to raise awareness of the Hamas terror group’s Oct. 7 massacre across southern Israel, briefly showing viewers the atrocities as they would have unfolded in a typical neighborhood outside the Jewish state.
Israel’s Deputy Ambassador to the UK, Oren Marmorstein, posted the video on X/Twitter along with the message: “London. Christmas Day. Your home and dear ones. What if it were you?”
The 90-second video follows a mother living in London, waking up on Christmas morning to gunshots outside and immediately grabbing her husband and children to go into the basement of their home for safety. However, masked men enter the basement and roughly abduct the bloodied woman, taking her with them.
The video includes timestamps that occur over a 90-minute period, corresponding to the timing of the Hamas attacks on the Israeli kibbutzim bordering Gaza, which is ruled by the Palestinian terror group.
Viewer discretion advised: The video contains potentially traumatic content.
London.
Christmas Day.
Your home and dear ones.
What if it were you? pic.twitter.com/Y7iGuIvYvJ— Oren Marmorstein (@OrenMarmorstein) November 20, 2023
It appears that choosing Christmas was meant to parallel the fact that the actual Oct. 7 attacks occurred on Simchat Torah, a Jewish holiday of celebration that is traditionally one of the happiest days of the year.
On Oct. 7, Palestinian terrorists led by Hamas invaded Israel and murdered over 1,200 people in the deadliest single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. The terrorists also injured thousands and abducted over 240 others, taking them back to Gaza as hostages. The brutality of the onslaught across southern Israeli communities — which included rape, torture, and even slaughtering babies — has shocked the world.
“The idea behind making the film is to connect British viewers to the tragic events that occurred in Israel on Oct. 7,” Hodaya Avzada, the project lead and a diplomat, told i24 News, describing the video produced on behalf of the Israeli Embassy. “In collaboration with Israeli creators living in London, the embassy formulated the idea of producing a video that would make the British feel in our shoes for a minute and a half.”
“The video was created with the idea that events in Israel are perceived by the British as very far away from them, and not as something they can feel directly. The result of this film speaks for itself, and automatically links the viewer to what is happening in Israel.”
The post Watch: Video Raises Awareness of Oct. 7 Massacre for Non-Israelis, Asking, ‘What If It Were You?’ first appeared on Algemeiner.com.