I24 News has released exclusive footage from the documentary “Bearing Witness to the October 7th Massacre” that documents the atrocities that took place in the Ta’asa family home on October 7th and the full story behind them.
By Rachel Avraham
In new footage that has emerged from October 7th, an Israeli mother, Sabine Ta’asa, cries, “My boys need help immediately. Gil was shot.” In the background of the video, one can see a man lying blooded on the ground. In the footage that follows, the mother related that her boys cried out to the Hamas terrorists: “Don’t kill my father. Don’t kill my mother. Kill me.”
The journalist in the documentary then stated that he cried when he heard this footage because he could not hear an 8-year-old boy crying to be killed by the terrorist organization Hamas: “The massacre that Hamas committed on the 7th of October led to many Israelis being killed, burned, raped, and kidnapped. This story will show you the cruelty of Hamas.”
Sabine then recounted, “One year before the attack, I was sitting here with my husband. I was sitting here and watching a movie. He stopped the movie and said, ‘Tomorrow I won’t be here. I’ll be at work.’ He was a fireman. ‘You have 3-4 terrorists here in the courtyard. What will you do?’” The Israeli mother related that both she and her husband knew that something like this would happen a year before October 7. Due to precautions that her husband made in making her home security proof, such as having a heavy door and closed windows, Sabine was spared: “The house saved my life and the life of the boys.”
The journalist related that on October 7, Sabine and Zohar were safely in the highly protected house, while literally a few meters away in another home that they own, Gil, her husband, and two of her boys, Coren and Shai, were with their father. The mother related: “I closed everything here. Before the attack, Gil came and said if you do not close the window until the evening, you will never open it again. He saw that I didn’t close the window, so he came in the night to tell me and this window is what saved me.”
On October 7, the Israeli mother related that a Red Siren was sounded and Gil came to her home for shelter with the two boys, but forgot to close the door, as he expected rockets and not armed terrorists to attack. Gil perished while protecting his two boys, Coren and Shai.
The journalist related, “Koren was injured with shrapnel.” The mother then recounted, “Shai was also injured by shrapnel and the eye was almost out.” The documentary then shows footage of Shai holding up his injured eye and asking, “Why am I alive? Why?” In the end, both boys survived, but Shai is permanently blind in one eye and both boys are extremely traumatized after witnessing the murder of their father and being injured.
The narrator of the documentary then recounts, “There is another story to the Ta’asa family tragedy. On October 7th, the eldest son Or, was with his friends early in the morning on Zikim Beach, just a few kilometers from their house. Hamas terrorists also arrived there.” Sabine related, “The terrorists killed my son and his friends.”
The journalist then concludes, “the blood of Sabine’s boys is something that we must not forget, which is why this piece of video is a history. You can try to lie. You can try to twist the facts, but you cannot wipe the truth for the truth is here.” Sabine then has a message to give viewers: “Wake up! It will happen in your country soon!”
“Bearing witness to the October 7th Massacre,” known in Hebrew as “the film of horrors,” is a film put together by the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit. It contains raw footage from the October 7 massacre, taken from the body cameras worn by Hamas terrorists, and contains scenes of extreme graphic violence recorded in real time. Although Israeli officials have held screenings for the film for journalists and Hollywood executives, some are opposed to releasing the entire film to the public over concerns regarding the psychological damage that it could cause to the Israeli public. However, despite these concerns, I24 News just released seven minutes of the film as it relates to the Ta’asa family story.
