UK Parliament group publishes major report to ensure October 7 massacre is ‘never forgotten’

Originally published in United with Israel

A group of British lawmakers has released a new and extensive report documenting the atrocities of the Palestinian terrorist organisation Hamas’s October 7 2023 invasion of southern Israel to establish an irrefutable historical record of the massacre.

“The purpose of commissioning our report has been to chronicle the events of October 7 with clarity and meticulous, fact-checking precision, to ensure it is never forgotten,” said Lord Andrew Roberts, a prominent historian who presided over the 318-page study.

“Holocaust denial took a few years to take root in pockets of society, but on October 7 2023 it took only hours for people to claim that the massacres in southern Israel had not taken place,” Roberts wrote in the report’s foreword.

“Hamas and its allies, both in the Middle East and equally shamefully in the West, have sought to deny the atrocities, despite the ironic fact that much of the evidence for the massacres derives from film footage from cameras carried by the terrorists themselves.”

He continued: “The present report has been undertaken to counter such pernicious views, and to lay down incontrovertible proof — for now and for the years to come — that nearly 1 200 innocent people were indeed murdered by Hamas and its allies, and very often in scenes of sadistic barbarism not seen in world history since the Rape of Nanjing in 1937.”

The landmark report was produced by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for UK-Israel, an informal alliance of legislators from both the House of Commons and the House of Lords, through a year of research and writing.

Among other findings, the report revealed that more British citizens (18) were killed during the Hamas-led October 7 onslaught than in any foreign terrorist attack since Al Qaeda struck the US on September 11 2001.

The report also provided details on the youngest death in the massacre, Naama Abu Rashed, who took a bullet while still in her mother’s womb and lived only 14 hours after being born.

In total, about 7 000 Hamas-led Palestinian terrorists killed 1 182 people, wounded more than 4 000 others, and kidnapped 251 hostages — 210 living and 41 dead bodies at the time of their abduction — on October 7 2023, according to the report.

“It was the largest single massacre of Jewish people since the Holocaust and the deadliest per capita terrorist attack, with just over one in every 10 000 Israelis killed and the third overall deadliest terrorist attack in the world to date,” the study concluded.

Other chapters in the study detailed Hamas’s planning, the weapons used, and the violence which occurred at each location, including gristly details of kidnapping, sexual violence, torture, and the desecration of corpses.

“Statements from eyewitnesses confirmed multiple incidents of rape and gang rape, and the rape of corpses of women. Eyewitness testimony also recounted the abuse of female victims who were passed between multiple attackers,” the report stated.

“While victims fled missile fire and attack, militants chased and actively hunted victims. Victims were found naked from the waist down or totally naked, many with their hands tied behind their backs or tied to trees or poles around the [Nova] festival site. Others also sustained gunshot wounds to the back of the head.”

The study also described how the concept of the October 7 attack began to form as early as 2014, with official preparation beginning in 2021.

The report identified the men most responsible for deciding on the attack as “Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif, Mohammed Sinwar (Yahya’s brother), Rawhi Mushtaha (a founding member of Hamas, also close to Sinwar), and Ayman Nofal, one of Deif’s close associates and the former head of Qassam Intelligence, the commander of the Brigades’ Central Brigade, and the head of the joint operations room for the resistance.”

The report also profiled the groups which aided Hamas in the attacks, notably Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, Palestinian Mujahideen Movement, the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), and Al-Ahrar.

“As a gentile, I believe that it is vital to prevent the emergence of another, more modern version of Holocaust denial, namely October 7 denial,” Roberts wrote in the report.

“After the Holocaust, non-Jews like me owe the Jewish people nothing less. This can only be done by the kind of facts-based, evidential work in this report, which is dedicated to Emily Damari, the British hostage who was held in Gaza for 471 days, and daughter of the superbly brave Mandy Damari who our investigation teams have met in Israel and London.”

Historian Sir Niall Ferguson called the report “invaluable” and “harrowing.”

The All-Party Parliamentary Group “has performed a vital service by providing such an irrefutable record of the terrorists’ crimes,” he said in a statement.

“Those who wish to understand the repulsive, pathological nature of antisemitism should read the report. Those who doubt the truly evil character of Hamas and PIJ must read it.”

Read the full report here: https://www.7octparliamentarycommission.co.uk/

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