STORY – Determined to win the media war, the Israeli army invited foreign media to view the images.
Special correspondent in Tel Aviv
In the darkness of the conference room of the Israeli military base in Glilot, north of Tel Aviv, the euphoric cries of Hamas fighters resonate. On the screen, and in front of a hundred journalists from the international press, two jihadists roam a kibbutz in the south of the country in search of victims. The images are shot by a GoPro camera, attached to the fighter’s forehead. This first-person view, where the terrorist reveals himself only through his hands stuck on a Kalashnikov, the shortness of breath that punctuates the video, the rooms searched one after the other, creates the impression of an immersive video game. However, before the eyes of the assembled journalists, it is indeed the spectacle of unspeakable horror that is playing out. To the cries of “God is great“, the attackers shoot an old man sitting on his sofa watching television through the windows, finish off men lying on the ground, drag bodies through…