The Israeli army invited more than a hundred foreign journalists on Monday to view photos of the attack carried out by Hamas on October 7. The images shown came from Hamas’ GoPro cameras, dashboard cameras, surveillance cameras, and videos made by the victims themselves.

Journalists were invited via social media to a military base near Tel Aviv. in a permit The Israeli government says the army collected all the footage and compiled it into one long collection. Most of the photos have never been shown publicly before.

It is not surprising that the Israeli government would show these videos to journalists, says Jewish history professor Bart Wallet. “Hamas and Israel constantly share atrocities committed by the other side. The government also has a public relations department.”

“Frustration is rising in Israel: Hello world, do you see what happened to us?” Wallet says. “International attention now seems to be mainly focused on Gaza. The idea is: when they see this, the world will understand why we have to respond.”

Independent Gautam Confino, who works for the BBC, among others, Haaretz And CBS News, attended Inspection From the movie. “The atmosphere was terrible, there was crying. There was a lot of tension and you could hear the reactions to the terrible images.”

Journalists were only allowed to take their notebooks with them, and had to hand in their phones and laptops. The photos were only shown to the press and may not be published out of respect for the victims and their relatives.

“This was worse than anything I had ever seen before,” Confino said. “I was shaking while taking notes, and it was difficult to read what I wrote.”

Confino tells Newsor which photo he remembers most. Warning: Shocking content.

According to Middle East expert Peter Malcontent, sharing the photos is part of a propaganda war. The goal is to show the world that they must stand with Israel. “They are going into this with their feet outstretched. They want the world to see the extent of their suffering. By sharing explicit images, they hope to win people over.”

According to Malcontent, it is very common to share gruesome images, including on the Palestinian side. But Malcontent himself has never seen this approach by the Israeli government, where film material is shown to a group of foreign journalists.

According to Malcontent, the fact that Israel invited only foreign journalists is simply because the Israeli press does not need to be convinced of atrocities. “In this way, Israel hopes that journalists will keep the images in the back of their minds, take them home, and then consider them in their next story. The hope is that journalists will be affected. It is difficult to know whether it will have an impact. I say. I don’t think so.”