November 2023 Abuse and Mutilation Compilation Video
On November 3, 2023, a video became public depicting IDF soldiers first rounding-up and beating Palestinians on a street before it cut to a different scene in which multiple IDF soldiers take turns abusing a captured Palestinian, then several segments showing unidentified Israelis debasing and graphically mutilating the bodies of Palestinians who presumably died after breaking out of Gaza during the October 7, 2023 Hamas Attack on Israel.
Compiled Video Footage[edit | edit source]
The video is composed of several different scenes or shots from various video clips or leaked video footage stitched together; some depict IDF soldiers abusing Palestinians while others show Israeli civilians enacting revenge on the bodies of dead Palestinian militia members.
IDF Outdoor Capture Scene[edit | edit source]
The first shot in the video depicts IDF soldiers on a street, rounding-up and then physically beating Palestinians with their fists as well as kicking them in the head and abdomen with their feet. At the very start of the video, one Israeli soldier can be seen repeatedly whipping a Palestinian with barrel of his automatic rifle, as the Palestinian screams in pain.
As it is not clear who the Palestinians in the video are and the footage does not show the typical/formal arrest sequence, this could be possibly be classified as an abduction of unknown Palestinians, though further investigation would be needed.
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IDF Abuse of Captured Palestinian[edit | edit source]
In the second scene of the video, a Palestinian — still alive and stripped to his undershorts — can be seen lying bound-and-gagged on the floor, making noises of pain as IDF soldiers take turns stomping him with their combat boots and ordering him to "shut up" in Arabic.
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IDF Soldier (while stomping Palestinian):
Quiet!
IDF Soldier:
Quiet!
Killing and Mutilation of Palestinian[edit | edit source]
At this point, the video shot cuts to a new scene, with a Palestinian man lying immobile on the ground. It is not clear if this is the same man from the previous scene, but it seems to be a completely different location and time.
It is not clear if the Palestinian man is still alive at this point — he is not moving and is not making any noise, at least any that can be heard over the yells of the unidentified Israelis as they take turns first beating then mutilating him/his corpse. However, the first Israeli to begin attacking him in this part of the video does so while screaming in mixed Hebrew-Arabic "Die, you son of a whore!" indicating that the man is probably not yet dead.
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Urination on Dead Palestinian(s)[edit | edit source]
In the next video sequence, at least one Israeli can be observed in the act of urinating on the Palestinian man, while mocking him, promising to do the same to the rest of the Arabs/Palestinians, and insulting Islam.
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Israeli Civilians Mutilating Palestinian Bodies[edit | edit source]
The video then cuts to another scene, again seemingly at a different time and location. Here Israeli civilians can be seen mutilating dead Palestinians — presumably members of one of the various militia factions that died in the October 7, 2023 Hamas Attack on Israel.
A number of Israeli civilians are seen mutilating dead bodies, starting with repeatedly stabbing the corpse of a Palestinian man.
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Facial Mutilation of a Palestinian Body[edit | edit source]
This part of the video depicts Israeli civilians mutilating the body of a Palestinian man, again presumably one of those involved in the October 7, 2023 Hamas Attack on Israel. The extremely graphic video shows an Israeli man first hitting the corpse of the Palestinian man with a squeegee attached to a long pole, and after the squeegee falls off, he continues to beat him with the pole before proceeding to carve out the eyes with the end of the pole.
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Israelis Running Over Corpses[edit | edit source]
The last two shots of the video depict Israeli civilians repeatedly running over the bodies of one or more Palestinian men, again presumably involved in the October 7th attack.
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Video Origins[edit | edit source]
The video in the format it is currently being circulated is an amalgamation of several different videos portraying a number of events over an unknown period of time, but likely all within a couple of weeks of the events of October 7th.
While it is not clear who filmed any of the sequences of the video, it appears that at least one was filmed by a member of the IDF, while the rest may have been taken by Israeli civilians.
The video segments were first uploaded to the Hebrew Telelgram channel "Terrorists from Another Angle" (Hebrew: מחבלים מזווית אחרת) where Israelis and other supporters of Israel share and react with glee or approval to pictures of dead Palestinians, including both members of Palestinian militias and innocent civilians. They were combined and posted on the Electronic Intifada website in an article published on November 3, 2023, with English captions added (the original videos are in Hebrew, with a few Arabic words thrown in).