Israeli Authorities Refuse To Return Oct. 7 Video Trove Confiscated From Families

Israeli authorities are refusing to return a “massive trove of video documentation of the Oct. 7 attack” that was confiscated from communities and bereaved families, according to The Grayzone.

The outlet says Israel’s Channel 13 reported that “all the cameras, memory cards and films that documented the atrocities were collected, but two and a half years later, these materials have not been returned.”

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The Grayzone also quotes an Israeli army reservist who participated in the collection mission saying, “They disconnected what was needed, took it and moved on – that was the last time we saw the materials.”

It adds that even Sabine Taasa, whose 17-year-old son Or was killed on Zikim beach, is “clashing with Israeli authorities over footage of that day,” after Channel 13 says she saw a video her son filmed but it was not on his phone when returned.

The MondeTrace investigation described the Golani Brigade as having been accused of responsibility for two “war crimes committed in Gaza,” including “the one involving fourteen rescuers and a UN employee in Rafah, on March 23, 2025.”

It also says the brigade was accused in “shots at Khan Younis’ Nasser Hospital, on September 25, 2025 – a two-stage strike that killed twenty-two people, including five journalists and rescuers.”

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The investigation says its findings trace “for the first time the Golani Brigade’s path: its battles, its losses, its abuses and its impunity.”

In the same account, The Monde frames the brigade as Israel’s “oldest infantry brigade” and says it is “also a martyr unit,” noting it “has lost more soldiers than any of the others in the terrorist attack of October 7, 2023.”

CNN Arabic fact-checks a video clip that social media accounts circulated with a claim of “Missile Strikes on Tel Aviv,” saying the clip was misleadingly described as “Tel Aviv right now — if you want to see the power of ballistic missiles, all you have to do is watch the moment the missiles strike Israel.”

“(CNN) -- Social media accounts circulated a video clip claiming it showed an Iranian missile strike that caused a building to collapse in Tel Aviv, Israel”

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CNN Arabic says its fact-check found the video is “old and not connected to the fallout of the United States–Israel–Iran conflict,” and that reverse-image search and still frames showed it dated back to the first day of the war in Gaza.

The outlet reports that Palestinian activist Motaz Azzayzeh had posted the same moment on October 7, 2023, writing in an Instagram comment: “A towering skyscraper was targeted by Israeli forces' bombardment in the heart of Gaza City.”

CNN Arabic adds that the video’s resurgence coincided with Iranian missile strikes on Israel in retaliation for Israeli and American strikes on Tehran since last Saturday.