People Are Learning The TRUTH About October 7th (And it changes everything)
Just scratch the surface & the big lie falls apart.
Article and voice over by Lee Camp
We all know that the genocide in Gaza started when Hamas broke into Israel and killed 1,200 Israelis on October 7th, 2023. Just recently NBC news said, “This latest conflict began on October 7th when Hamas massacred 1,200 people in Israel.” NPR stated, “...fighters from Hamas killed around 1,200 people…” The New York Times recently printed, “Hamas invaded southern Israel, killing roughly 1,200 people…”
And Yoav Gallant, who was Israel’s Defense Minister at the time of the attacks, said just a few months ago, “Israeli troops were ordered to shoot and kill captive Israeli civilians on 7 October 2023.”
Wait, WHAT? …Israeli troops killed a bunch of Israelis? This seems to be a reference to the Hannibal Directive, which is the Israeli military’s sometimes policy of killing everyone around—Hostage takers, hostages, Israeli soldiers, onlookers, woodchucks, etc.
But wait. We all know the Hannibal Directive doesn’t exist. Well, we all know it except apparently for former Defense Minister (and part-time war criminal) Yoav Gallant. He also said not long ago,
“The order to carry out Israel’s so-called Hannibal Directive was issued ‘tactically’ and ‘in various places’ next to Gaza, Yoav Gallant told Israel’s Channel 12…”
But it’s fine because the plan to kill everyone was issued tactically. (Just like I use my sledge hammer to kill an ant on my glass living room table - carefully.)
If this is true, it goes against the “1,200 killed by Hamas” claim vomited up by every Western media outlet every time they mention the word “Gaza” or “Israel” or “October”. Well, not all of the media has denied the Hannibal truth. Not Israeli media. Here’s from Haaretz: “IDF Ordered Hannibal Directive on October 7 to Prevent Hamas Taking Soldiers Captive”.
So, the Israeli military was killing tons of Israelis on October 7th?! This changes everything. …We need to get an official trusted body like the United Nations to look into this! — Oh wait, they have looked into this.
“The report by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry (COI) documented repeated uses of the so-called Hannibal Directive on 7 October as Israel was combating Hamas fighters…”
Okay, fine. The IDF might’ve killed a few Israelis, but it probably wasn’t that many.
“A new investigative article by …two journalists with extensive sources inside Israel’s military and intelligence establishment …revealed that ‘some 70 vehicles’ driven by Palestinian fighters returning to Gaza were blown up by Israeli helicopter gunships, drones or tanks.”
Seventy vehicles blown up?! That sounds like it would probably have killed a lot of Israeli hostages and bystanders. Even if it were just 2 or 3 per vehicle, that’s hundreds of people. It can’t be that many cars or we would’ve seen piles of them. — Oh wait, there’s literally video of piles of them.
Holy shit! Why haven’t I seen those before? Why aren’t there tours being given of the wreckage?
Oh wait, Israel admitted they shredded and buried hundreds of cars filled with evidence. Why in God’s name would Israel do such a thing? According to Jerusalem Post they did it “in order to save space and be as environmentally-friendly as possible…”
Environmentally friendly?! Yeah, that is so Israel. When you look at a photo of Gaza, you think, “They’re trying to be eco-friendly. Israel is the Greta Thunberg of ethnic cleansing.” (When they aren’t kidnapping and torturing Greta Thunberg.)
Sooo, let me get this straight. Israel has admitted they killed loads of their own people on Oct 7th, and they’ve admitted to destroying and burying all the evidence because they care about the environment.
But back up. If a mass Hannibal Directive happened, there’d also be witness testimony from those who survived this horror show. Oh wait—There is.
“...the key testimony of Yasmin Porat, an Israeli woman who survived a massacre by Israeli forces at Kibbutz Be’eri. According to her account, many Israeli civilians were killed when Israeli forces opened fire with heavy weapons including tank shells at the small kibbutz house they were held by Palestinian fighters.”
Opened fire on a kibbutz house?! I doubt it. I wouldn’t believe that unless I saw video of the tank operators themselves admitting it. …Oh, there is.
In fact the tank gunner says she was told to fire at a house with tank rounds, but she stopped to ask the commanding officer if there were Israeli civilians inside. He said, “I don’t know, just fire.” But she decided to only fire her machine gun at the house instead of tank blasts.
…And she’s proud enough of this to talk about it on national television. Okay, okay, maybe this was a rare incident. Maybe this one tank gunner went nuts. If it happened a lot, we would hear that the IDF fired thousands of bullets and bombs.
Oh, wait—As Israel Hayom reported,
“Data revealed here for the first time shows that during the fighting on October 7, the Air Force fired 11,000 shells, dropped more than 500 heavy one-ton bombs and launched 180 missiles.”
500 one-ton bombs?! 180 missiles?! …Honestly, those numbers don’t make any sense. To achieve those numbers, you’d have to just be shooting at everything. Well, as Haaretz reported,
“ ‘Shoot at everything,’ one squadron leader reportedly told his men.”
So one of the most powerful militaries in the world was literally firing at everything that moved on Oct 7th and killed hundreds of their own people who were completely innocent. It follows that the 1200 number we hear endlessly could actually be 800 killed by Hamas and 400 by Israel. Or 600 and 600? Or even worse? This changes the ENTIRE story.
Why haven’t any journalists demanded Trump or Biden or Antony Blinken or Marco Rubio answer to this? —OH, right, I remember.
Journalist Sam Husseini tried to ask Antony Blinken about the Hannibal Directive at a press conference and was quickly and violently carried out of the room and concussed.
I’ve got one more question—Even though Israel shredded and buried the cars, isn’t there any surveillance footage showing the behavior of the IDF? Showing what exactly happened?
Well, Jerusalem Post reported, “Critical IDF surveillance videos from Hamas’s attack on Oct. 7 missing”. Of course they are. I mean, if you’re gonna kill hundreds of your own citizens, you totally gotta wipe the cameras. I learned that from Ocean’s 11.
Anyway, all-told there are mountains of evidence showing the IDF killed a ridiculous number of their own citizens on October 7th, 2023 and yet our rotting raccoon carcass (AKA western media) faithfully repeats the lie every day that 1200 Israelis were killed by Hamas. Unbelievable. It’s almost like they don’t mind lying at all. It’s almost like it’s their job.
This is Part One of a two-part series on the truth about October 7th. Read Part Two here.








I am glad you are writing about this Lee , but stunned this is still a minority narrative two years later , and education is still necessary .
When one puts together all the FACTS along with common sense , a picture emerges of Israel making a calculated decision to allow a few hundred civilian deaths in exchange for the opportunity to obliterate Gaza and kill or expel its residents .
If I made a film compiling the evidence , one of my key clips would be smirking Bibi (10/8)
Saying : “ This … is our 9/11”.
The perfect double entendre .
To the rest of the sympathetic world it means - poor Israel brutally attacked by savages , and now , against their will , they are forced to retaliate . Poor things -
Victims as always .
To Bibi and his cabinet it means - this is our excuse to do what we have always wanted to do to Gaza . Kill and evict the residents and resettle it with Israelis .
( Just as the Bush / Cheney group used the public and world sympathy generated by 9/11 to advance immoral and otherwise hard to justify military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq).
For me it was one of those truths - once seen , it cannot be unseen .
Thanks for your work✊🏽
Actual journalism, well written and argued, citing source material with your loved wit and the sardonic humour.
Top shelf Lee.