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Chris Cuomo Reacts to Uncensored Footage of Hamas’ Oct. 7 Massacre: Israel Is ‘Doing Far Less Than It Could’
Television news anchor Chris Cuomo poses as he arrives at the WarnerMedia Upfront event in New York City, New York, US, May 15, 2019. Photo: REUTERS/Mike Segar
NewsNation television anchor Chris Cuomo on Thursday shared his thoughts on seeing the uncensored footage provided by Israel that documents what he described during his show as the “genocidal” massacre carried out by Hamas terrorists in the Jewish state on Oct. 7.
The host of the CUOMO show and some of his team members were invited to watch a private screening of the 47-minute film showing some of the atrocities when Hamas terrorists invaded southern Israel, murdered 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapped 240 others two months ago. The Algemeiner attended a screening in November along with other journalists and diplomats.
Cuomo said he saw members of Hamas who “enjoyed mutilating” their victims “and went back and celebrated in the streets [of Gaza] with heads and bloody corpses as trophies,” arguing that proved the Palestinian terrorist group does not “want peace; they want to kill and burn the Jews.”
“This was absolute genocide. That is a word that people are misapplying, and this is where it does apply,” he insisted. “The 47 minutes show a small fraction of the dead, but it is overwhelming that Hamas wanted war. This was not the irrepressible angst of the desperate who want freedom, who want better, nor certainly want anything approximating peace. They wanted the Jews to know that they want them to burn — again.”
“I now understand better what is fueling Israel,” he added. “This is not tit-for-tat. They are fueled by the deepest fears of genocide because those fears are real.”
Cuomo compared the Hamas onslaught on Oct. 7 to the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks in the US perpetrated by al Qaeda. He went on to argue that Hamas’ actions were “reminders of a Holocaust, the obvious desire to see as many Jews utterly destroyed as possible.”
“The method was not madness — they were sane but just evil. But the method was a message,” he said about the terrorists behind 9/11. “Their unholy efforts triggered what America feared most: Terrorists robbing us of who and what we are about at home. And so, they got what they asked for — the wrath of a people united in common fear and concern that it is us or it is them. Existential.”
Connecting 9/11 and its aftermath to the Oct. 7 attacks and Israel’s ongoing military campaign against Hamas in Gaza, Cuomo said: “If an enemy wanted to make sure that Israel would come for them, the message would be to take children, women, innocents, and more, tie them up and burn them alive. Just like the Holocaust. The ultimate fear of what the world can bring the Jews’ way when a decision is made that Jews are less than human and treated that way in words and deeds.”
“I now know that is exactly the message Hamas sent, on purpose, at scale. I was not aware of that before. How intentional the effort was,” he added. “They did it methodically. You hear it in the voices, the commands, the ease, the excitement of finding and mutilating victims. Merely murdering innocents was the least of it … It was death in your face, hands on, and personal.”
Cuomo concluded by saying that while he does not want to “erase or in any way mitigate” the death toll of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, “after seeing the video … I’m telling you, Israel is doing far less than it could.”
“It is easy to say stop, [but] it is very hard to say how. Why?” he asked. “How do you ask Israel to risk being vulnerable to those who do not honor agreements and have made it very clear they don’t want peace. They want to burn and kill the Jews.”
Today I was among the journalists who have attended a private screening of the raw footage of October 7th and I want to express to you what I saw since it’s not been made public. It’s been a very heavy day. A decision was made that Jews are less than human, and treated that way… pic.twitter.com/b455joHQxs
— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) December 15, 2023
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Sweden Ends Funding for UNRWA, Pledges to Seek Other Aid Channels
View of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) building in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Photo: Abed Rahim Khatib / Flash90.
i24 News – Sweden will no longer fund the U.N. refugee agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) and will instead provide humanitarian assistance to Gaza via other channels, the Scandinavian country said on Friday.
The decision comes on the heels of multiple revelations regarding the agency’s employees’ involvement in the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led massacre in southern Israel that triggered the war in Gaza.
Sweden’s decision was in response to the Israeli ban, as it will make channeling aid via the agency more difficult, the country’s aid minister, Benjamin Dousa, said.
“Large parts of UNRWA’s operations in Gaza are either going to be severely weakened or completely impossible,” Dousa said. “For the government, the most important thing is that support gets through.”
The Palestinian embassy in Stockholm said in a statement: “We reject the idea of finding alternatives to UNRWA, which has a special mandate to provide services to Palestinian refugees.”
Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel thanked Dousa for a meeting they had this week and for Sweden’s decision to drop its support for UNRWA.
“There are worthy and viable alternatives for humanitarian aid, and I appreciate the willingness to listen and adopt a different approach,” she said.
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Pope Calls Gaza Airstrikes ‘Cruelty’ After Israeli Minister’s Criticism
Pope Francis waves after delivering his traditional Christmas Day Urbi et Orbi speech to the city and the world from the main balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, December 25, 2021. Photo: REUTERS/Yara Nardi
Pope Francis on Saturday again condemned Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, a day after an Israeli government minister publicly denounced the pontiff for suggesting the global community should study whether the military offensive there constitutes a genocide of the Palestinian people.
Francis opened his annual Christmas address to the Catholic cardinals who lead the Vatican’s various departments with what appeared to be a reference to Israeli airstrikes on Friday that killed at least 25 Palestinians in Gaza.
“Yesterday, children were bombed,” said the pope. “This is cruelty. This is not war. I wanted to say this because it touches the heart.”
The pope, as leader of the 1.4-billion-member Roman Catholic Church, is usually careful about taking sides in conflicts, but he has recently been more outspoken about Israel’s military campaign against Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.
In book excerpts published last month, the pontiff said some international experts said that “what is happening in Gaza has the characteristics of a genocide.”
Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli sharply criticized those comments in an unusual open letter published by Italian newspaper Il Foglio on Friday. Chikli said the pope’s remarks amounted to a “trivialization” of the term genocide.
Francis also said on Saturday that the Catholic bishop of Jerusalem, known as a patriarch, had tried to enter the Gaza Strip on Friday to visit Catholics there, but was denied entry.
The patriarch’s office told Reuters it was not able to comment on the pope’s remarks about the patriarch being denied entry.
Israeli officials were not immediately reachable for comment on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, and the Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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IDF Pledges to Implement Lessons from Failure to Intercept Houthi Missile
Iranian-backed Yemeni terrorist leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi. Photo: Screenshot
i24 News – The Israeli military said on Saturday that while the investigation into the failure to intercept the missile that hit Tel Aviv early in the morning was still ongoing, some lessons were already being implemented. The ballistic missile, fired by Yemen’s Houthi jihadists, landed at a playground in a residential area, leading to 16 people sustaining injuries from glass shards.
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson said that “some of the conclusions have already been implemented, in regards of both interception and early warning.”
The spokesperson added that “no further details regarding aerial defense activities and the alert system can be disclosed due to operational security considerations.”
The Houthis have repeatedly fired drones and missiles towards Israel in what they describe as “acts of solidarity” with Palestinians in Gaza.
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