Trump To View Footage Of October 7 Attack Ahead Of Netanyahu Visit

President Donald Trump will watch footage of Hamas’ October 7 attack on civilians before meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, according to YNet.

U.S. Special Envoy to The Middle East Steve Witkoff reportedly saw the film last week during his visit to Israel and decided the president should see it as well. Officials on Witkoff’s trip said he was shaken and shocked by the film, YNet reported.

While there is a 47-minute film that Israel has shown to select audiences, including journalists, politicians, and influencers, Trump will reportedly watch a shortened 20-30 minute video.

The Daily Wire viewed the full video in December 2023 with a delegation of young Arabs meeting with American leaders to advocate for peace under the organization Sharaka, which was founded after the Abraham Accords. 

“I was shocked — I couldn’t breathe,” Fatema Al Harbi from Bahrain told The Daily Wire. “I cried [through] most of it.”

While much of the footage has circulated online, the compilation does not blur the faces of dead or alive adults, and includes videos that have not been released publicly. The consulate did not allow video cameras or cell phones in the screening room.

“I thought I saw enough on social media,” said Al Harbi, who is also the Sharaka’s Gulf affairs director. “There were more horrific acts and barbaric acts towards civilians — people sleeping in their beds.”

In total, the video shows over 120 bodies, including children. The footage also includes videos of beheadings, houses and people set on fire, unarmed people shot at point-blank range, and more.

Rawan Osman, who has lived in Syria and Lebanon, said the glee that Hamas fighters had in the video while they executed and beheaded people made them worse than ISIS.

“They were so joyful and cheering over dead bodies and they were parading bodies without clothes,” Al Harbi, who is Muslim, said. “That’s not the Islam that I knew my whole life.”

Osman said the hardest part of the video for her was a scene of a father appearing to jump on a grenade to save his children in a bomb shelter.

“I’m a mother and I could relate to the fear, the dread the father and the children were feeling,” she said. “The moment the boys realize that their father has been killed and the way the terrorists react to that, they’re just pushing them around, like move on.”

Trump and Netanyahu enjoy a warmer relationship than the leader of the Jewish state had with the Biden administration. Ahead of his departure, Netanyahu emphasized the importance of the meeting and outlined the issues to discuss, including defeating Hamas, releasing all hostages, and dealing with Iran and its proxies.

Netanyahu is the first world leader Trump will host at the White House during his second term.