The horror of 7 October on film

EARLY IN THE MORNING OF 7 October 2023, as Hamas terrorists started to slaughter hundreds of young people at the Nova dance festival, three escaped by car. They drove to the entrance of nearby Kibbutz Be’eri, seeking sanctuary. But they arrived at the same time as the first Hamas gunmen. CCTV footage shows what happened next. A terrorist casually sprays the car with bullets. The vehicle slows, veers leftward and stops, its passengers now dead. Another gunman shoots into a house, the groans of his victim audible. In One Day in October Dan Reed, an award-winning director, cuts between the killers’ own headset footage, the kibbutz’s CCTV system which captured so much of the slaughter, interviews with survivors and the heart-rending last messages of those about to die to their…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2024

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