Los Videos Mas Terrorificos De Youtube
Vida Hubbert
In an auditorium at an Israeli military base north of Tel Aviv on Monday, I joined dozens of foreign journalists who were shown 43 minutes of graphic, gruesome video and photographs that the Israel Defense Forces said were made during Hamas's Oct. 7 attack on Israel. Some of the images had circulated online before, in some cases in truncated and edited form, but most of what we saw was unedited and very disturbing.
The IDF said it compiled the images from militants' body cameras, victims' dash cams and cellphones, security cameras at kibbutzim, and other sources. The IDF decided to share them, international spokesman Lt. Col. Richard Hecht told me, as part of his country's "narrative battle." It comes as international criticism mounts over civilian casualties in Israel's military campaign in Gaza.
"We understand that there's a narrative battle here and that we have to show the world what happened here," Hecht said. "We're doing everything we can to show the media that there's a reason why we're doing what we're doing. [Hamas] started this in the most heinous way."
Hamas militants lobbing a grenade into what appears to be a home bomb shelter, killing a father before he could slam the door shut. His young sons, wearing only their underwear, were splattered with blood but survived. In another clip, the boys are in their kitchen, crying out for their mother, as one attacker pulls a Coca-Cola from their refrigerator and takes a leisurely sip. The younger brother says he can't see out of one eye and asks, "Why am I alive?"
We also saw clips of militants firing at close range at two women huddling in fear under a desk; spraying bullets at unsuspecting drivers until their cars slow to a halt; dragging bloodied bodies out of one car and driving it away.
After the viewing, IDF Major General Mickey Edelstein explained why the IDF had invited international journalists there to watch the videos: He said he was "shocked" to see some media trying to equate Israel's actions in Gaza with Hamas's atrocities in Israel. "Is it equal? I cannot understand such a comparison," he said.
Israel says Hamas' attacks have killed more than 1,400 people and left 5,400 wounded. More than two weeks of Israel's retaliatory airstrikes on Gaza have killed nearly 5,800 people and injured almost 16,300, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, which is run by Hamas.
"I think at this point Hamas is winning the information campaign," Karin von Hippel, director-general of the London-based Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) thinktank, told CBS News. She said that wasn't necessarily because of the militant group's own public relations efforts, but because it has many "multipliers and enablers" and because of the deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
"The Israelis need to be incredibly careful because they generated a lot of sympathy from various quarters in the immediate aftermath [of the October 7 attacks]," she said, "but it appears they're killing too many civilians now in Gaza."
"We're doing everything we can to notify civilians to move," he said. "But you saw the visuals. [Hamas] came in and they went for anyone they could, and we have the obligation for this not to happen again. We're protecting our nation."
"Israel is playing catch up, which is why they did the international press briefing," said Fran Townsend, who was a National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush and is now a senior CBS News national security consultant.
Townsend added, however, that even if Hamas was commanding the narrative by tapping "into the heat of emotions in a way governments seem incapable of doing," officials in Washington and Israel, "tend to think that the righteousness of our argument will carry the day."
The current "narrative battle" is nothing new, noted Von Hippel at RUSI. "Obviously, there has been a lot of sympathy for the Palestinians over many years and in many parts of the world, and it's very easy to rile up that base."
A number of the videos, including one entitled "Westminster attack documentary (must watch)" and published on ISIS' Al-Anbar news outlet, referred directly to the incident in which U.K. national Khalid Masood killed four people near London's parliament building. Masood rammed into a crowd of people with his car and fatally stabbed a police officer before being shot dead by authorities. U.K. authorities have not established any direct links between ISIS and Masood, whom authorities had previously suspected of supporting jihadist ideologies, but one alleged ISIS supporter called him a "soldier of the Islamic State" on YouTube.
Google, which bought YouTube in 2006, has struggled to control the flow of content deemed extremist and racist by authorities and many viewers. In addition to other clips praising Masood's attack in London, ISIS sympathizers uploaded propaganda encouraging Westerners to stage additional attacks. One nasheed or chant entitled "By Breaking the Skulls" was uploaded Saturday to YouTube and shared on Twitter by terrorism analyst Michael S. Smith II.
"We shall cut off their heads, with the severe blades, we shall drink the blood, so tasty and dark red... let us go forth, to defeat the filthy ones, to aid the religion, abundantly clear, either a victory, with lots of booty, or a death, no better way to end," the chant went.
"Breaking of the Skulls" was posted by the Asdaa Foundation, which has shared a number of other pro-ISIS chants including one entitled "This is Mosul" from October. That same month, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the beginning of an offensive involving the Iraqi army, Kurdish forces, Iran-backed Shiite Muslim militias and the U.S.-led coalition on the city of Mosul, where ISIS established its largest stronghold. The ongoing operation has seen ISIS retreat to its last remaining Western pockets of influence and call on Muslims to conducts terror attacks in the West.
Shortly after last week's attack, ISIS followers flooded social media, threatening further violence in London. The U.K. has been an active member of the international coalition involved in fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria, where the group exploited sectarian violence to take large swaths of territory. Much of the group's "caliphate" has since been lost to the various local and international forces that have launched offensives against the jihadists.
ISIS executioner Mohammed Emwazi, known in Western media as "Jihadi John," was a U.K. citizen and reportedly killed by a coalition drone strike on ISIS' de facto capital of Raqqa. Emwazi first made headlined in August 2014 when he beheaded captured U.S. journalist James Foley on camera, CNN reported.
Based in his hometown of Staten Island, New York City, Tom O'Connor is an award-winning Senior Writer of Foreign Policy and Deputy Editor of National Security and Foreign Policy at Newsweek, where he specializes in covering the Middle East, North Korea, China, Russia and other areas of international affairs, relations and conflict.
He has previously written for International Business Times, the New York Post, the Daily Star (Lebanon) and Staten Island Advance. His works have been cited in more than 1,700 academic papers, government reports, books, news articles and other forms of research and media from across the globe. He has contributed analysis to a number of international outlets and has participated in Track II diplomacy related to the Middle East as well as in fellowships at The Korea Society and Foreign Press Center Japan.
ISIS propaganda videos show gunmen patrolling Syrian streets in what appear to be older and newer model white Hilux pick-ups bearing the black caliphate seal and crossing Libya in long caravans of gleaming tan Toyota Land Cruisers. When ISIS soldiers paraded through the center of Raqqa, more than two-thirds of the vehicles were the familiar white Toyotas with the black emblems. There were small numbers of other brands including Mitsubishi, Hyundai and Isuzu.
Questions about the ISIS use of Toyota vehicles have circulated for years. In 2014, a report by the radio broadcaster Public Radio International noted that the U.S. State Department delivered 43 Toyota trucks to Syrian rebels. A more recent report in an Australian newspaper said that more than 800 of the trucks had been reported missing in Sydney between 2014 and 2015, and quoted terror experts speculating that they may have been exported to ISIS territory.
Wallace, of the Counter Extremism Project, said his organization wrote directly to Toyota earlier this year to urge the company to do more to track the flow of trucks to ISIS, and noted that the trucks are stamped with traceable identification numbers.
The incident saw an Australian man attack bishop Mari Emmanuel in Sydney, Australia. The act was live-streamed, as it took place as Emmanuel spoke before his congregation, and appears to have been motivated by Emmanuel's positions that saw the obscure Australia cleric become a minor social media personality.
Australian authorities declared the incident was a terrorist attack, based on local laws that define such acts as involving religiously or ideologically motivated violence. Australia, like many nations, feels content depicting such attacks is bad for social cohesion and can motivate others to commit similar acts.
The Call was developed in response to the March 2019 act of terror that saw an Australian man murder 51 people at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. The murderer live-streamed his depraved acts, and those vile videos were widely shared.
Take transparent, specific measures seeking to prevent the upload of terrorist and violent extremist content and to prevent its dissemination on social media and similar content-sharing services, including its immediate and permanent removal, without prejudice to law enforcement and user appeals requirements, in a manner consistent with human rights and fundamental freedoms
In December 2022, Musk met with French president Emmanuel Macron, who wrote that the billionaire "confirmed Twitter's participation to the Christchurch Call. There is no place for terrorist and violent extremist content anywhere."
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