The footage shows the young women, all of them stunned and some bloodied, being bound and bundled into a jeep.

One of the gunmen can be heard shouting back in Arabic: “You are dogs! We will step on you, dogs!”

Another gunman tells a captive: “You’re beautiful.”

Archive: https://archive.md/aKqUL

Full footage (NSFW): https://yewtu.be/watch?v=BB8uGxQ1MqQ

  • OccamsTeapot@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I think if you can’t see the implications of this in the current context you are lost. This focus on the horrendous crimes that took place on October 7th is being used to justify a genocide. Of course it was horrendous. But ever since then we have seen a continuous stream of horrendous crimes, and narrowly focusing on the 1,200 victims of October 7th is a game to distract attention from the 35,000 + mainly innocent people who have been brutally killed in the almost 8 months since then and still being killed now.

    This story on it’s own is about despicable crimes and there would be nothing to object to. The wider context and specific timing make it more sinister