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Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Israel publishes footage of Hamas breaking Gazans’ legs with metal bars, criticizes ‘deafening silence’ from global activists
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleLazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter
After Hamas rounded up and shot dozens of Gazans in broad daylight — claiming without evidence that they were informants and criminals — footage emerges of Hamas operatives breaking the legs of Palestinians with metal bars.
The videos depict blindfolded and handcuffed Gazans being pushed to ground as their legs are stretched out before being struck in their shins with rods and shrieking in agony.
The Foreign Ministry blasts “the deafening silence from ‘the moral preachers,'” in a video shared to X.
“Where are you?” asks the narrator. “All the loud voices? The human-rights warriors? The moral preachers? The queers for Palestine?”
“Are these your freedom fighters? The ones you march for? You vanished. Hamas must go,” says the Foreign Ministry.
The Wall Street Journal reported today that Hamas told ceasefire mediators it will stop public executions of rivals.
Killings in public by Palestinian Hamas – and deafening silence from the “moral preachers”.
Do you hear the sound of the crickets? pic.twitter.com/CcnX94d39U— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) October 22, 2025
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