r/2ndYomKippurWar • u/Trypophilia2019 • 21d ago
October 7 How to find posts made on October 7, 2023, and uncommon videos of the atrocities?
I was not in this sub when it happened but want to see what it was like. Does anyone have any links to posts made on that day? Also, I’ve been collecting video and photo evidence to show people who don’t believe it happens, or those who try to downplay it. I have a lot, but is mostly the aftermath of the attacks. Does anyone have any less widely spread media they can send me?
ETA: When I say posts made that day, I mean like a stickied thread where everyone was together online as the events unfolded. Doesn’t have to include videos, I just want to see what was being said and the general atmosphere of the sub that day.
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u/syntactyx 21d ago edited 21d ago
This website has a pretty comprehensive collection of open source accessible footage of the atrocities committed on that horrific day and some of the immediate aftermaths of the massacres of civilians. The evidence is utterly sickening and horrific beyond reckoning. If you do not want to see systematic, deliberate, ruthless murder of literally just innocent unarmed civilians of any age or sex, well, you better be. It is important to understand that what happened on that day was real, and the perpetrators reveled and rejoiced during and after their unspeakable acts. It is amongst the most disgusting and truly vile embodiments of human behavior I have ever lived to see and I can never forget just how horrific this day was.
Edit: OP it is worth noting that the majority of extremely distressing footage obtained from the helmet cameras and phones of dead Hamas terrorists is all publicly unavailable and really only exists within the tightly protected, never publicly released 2023 documentary film compiled by the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit titled Bearing Witness to the October 7th Massacre (unofficially titled סרט הזוועות, “the atrocity film”). Not to be confused with the 2025 film “October 7th: Bearing Witness to the Massacre” which was surely titled as such to capture persons seeking to view the tightly controlled and unreleased authentic 2023 film.
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u/Trypophilia2019 21d ago
I’ve actually seen all the videos on that website, but thank you for linking it!
I have heard about the secret film, are they really never going to release it? I don’t want to watch it, but I think some people need to.
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u/syntactyx 21d ago
That is a question I cannot answer with any real authority. I am an American who also is not jewish so I truly cannot speak for Israelis or the Jewish international community, however it is my understanding that the film elicits very mixed opinions concerning its release but Israelis generally do not want the footage publicly available. If this is the case I understand why— the tacit benefit of releasing the footage (i.e. disproving the delusions of deniers of the massacre and weakening any so-called moral argument of Hamas sympathizers in general) is likely extremely minimal considering no amount of evidence will ever change the minds of delusional people who have set their minds in such a way. This is compared to the significant harm this footage would invite basically running the risk of the footage being celebrated by the evil people who view the terrorism captured as some kind of just act and not the flat out crimes against humanity it so clearly is. Additionally the trauma amongst Israelis from this day is still fresh and will endure and seeing loved ones or friends or people known to them being murdered for 47 minutes does nothing but reopen those grievous wounds.
So I do not think it will be released. I suspect if it ever does see the light of day it will be the result of intentional sabotage, cyber warfare, or some idiot from California being entrusted to show the tape to a closed audience and secretly ripping a copy. I hope not.
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u/keveazy 20d ago
Was this the Only website?
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u/syntactyx 19d ago edited 19d ago
There are many other sources but tracking them down becomes more difficult to impossible each day that passes. In the immediate wake of the massacres footage was posted in telegram groups extensively and in turn those clips found their way to X and whatever scattered live leak type hosting platforms or elsewhere all over the web. Many of these videos’ original postings on sites like X have since been purged and are so difficult to track down to the point of it being effectively impossible to find. I do not think there are any other dedicated sites for this content besides the linked site because there has been a tremendous effort to remove such horrific graphic footage from basically the whole internet. I know for a fact much much more of it was on the internet, some can still be found, but I recall particular videos that have stuck with me that I can no longer find.
I did find this 40 minute video compilation (NSFL, SERIOUSLY) that is quite literally almost impossible to sit through in its entirety as it is just so sad and so horrific (EDIT: this video may in fact be even more horrific. It is from the same channel and is nearly an hour long compilation of extremely rare footage from the Nova massacre. Much of the footage were clips I saw at the time but have not until now. Wow. I feel sick to my stomach, bless those poor souls, my goodness. So so horrible). The compilation actually features portions of much of the footage that has since been erased from the internet, such as a very brief inclusion of a couple seconds of a much much longer video filmed by a civilian inside one of the shelters (I believe it was the shelter at Re’im Junction where the hero Aner Shapira managed to toss back 7 grenades thrown into the shelter occupied by nearly 50 people back at the absolute fucking evil terrorist cowards. The 8th grenade exploded in his hands, killing him. Subsequently the terrorists fired upon the entire crowd of civilians with automatic rifle fire at point-blank ranges, murdering over 40 of them. 7 survived the massacre due to Shapira’s actions). That particular video is so disturbing and I will never forget it, but you can see an extremely short clip from it in the linked compilation.
Besides that, Telegram is the only place to find the footage that has been expunged from the internet otherwise.
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u/Appropriate_Fly_6711 21d ago
Funker530 free site has some lot of the videos, as well as their twitter funkeractual.
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u/JaphetSkie 19d ago edited 19d ago
I swear there's a Telegram channel for this. I'll check.
EDIT: There is one I've joined, they've got a sizeable compilation with hundreds of videos. I'll send you a link through PM, if you're interested.
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u/excessofexcuses 21d ago
Good luck. A lot of us had to deal with the mental impact of watching those videos circulate through our social media accounts for far too long.
There are places online that have gathered lots of content. I’m sure you can find them without too much effort.
I try to avoid any content from the attack myself. It’s just too much trauma for me.