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Landmark UK report on Hamas massacre exposes worst attack on Jews since Holocaust
A Holocaust survivor murdered at age 91 and a baby killed just 14 hours after birth are among the victims named in the U.K.’s October 7 Parliamentary Commission Report, the most detailed Western investigation to date into the Hamas-led attack on Israel.
The 318-page report, chaired by British historian and peer Lord Andrew Roberts, documents the deaths of 1,182 people in a 48-hour period and provides extensive evidence of atrocities committed against civilians.
The report describes the assault as «a meticulously planned operation designed not only to kill but to terrorize through extreme brutality, looting and humiliation.» It includes testimonies of group rapes of women and girls, some of whom were murdered, as well as evidence of sexual violence committed against corpses. It details the targeting of children, including infants shot in strollers or burned alive.
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Hamas terrorists killed civilians, including women, children and the elderly, when they attacked Israel on Oct. 7. (Israel Defense Forces via AP)
Roberts, one of Britain’s leading historians and a member of the House of Lords, said that meeting Mandy Damari, the mother of hostage Emily Damari, «reduced me to tears.» Speaking in an interview with Fox News Digital, Lord Roberts recalled visiting Kibbutz Kfar Aza and hearing from families of victims while the fate of their loved ones was still unknown.
«At that time, of course, she didn’t know whether her 27-year-old daughter, Emily, was going to be released or not, or whether she was going to die in Gaza,» he said. «And I have a 25-year-old daughter, and so it was brought home incredibly powerfully to me.»
Despite the graphic nature of the material, Roberts emphasized that the report was deliberately limited to verified facts. «We actually made the report much less than it could have been, because we insisted on only putting things in that could be double-checked,» he said. «If we had put in things that we truly believe happened but couldn’t prove happened, we kept them out.»
A bloodied handprint stains a wall in a Nir Oz house after Hamas terrorists attacked this kibbutz days earlier near the border of Gaza. (Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images)
When asked what motivated him to take on the project, Roberts said, «The denialism that has already cropped up,» including attempts to downplay or question the events of October 7. «It’s quite ironic that as well as celebrating and indulging in their most sort of disgusting fantasies by wearing GoPro cameras, they also seek to deny that the whole thing ever happened,» he said of Hamas.
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«October 7 denial,» as the report refers to it, emerged almost immediately after the attacks and mirrors historical patterns of atrocity denial, despite the overwhelming evidence.
«I thought it was really important to get a big, thick, well-documented, irrefutable, fully footnoted document out there that will stand the test of time,» Roberts said.
Hamas terrorists kidnap a bloodied Israeli woman into the Gaza Strip. (Hamas-Telegram)
The report includes accounts of mass looting, arson and mutilation. It states that terrorists used victims’ phones to send images to their families, booby-trapped corpses with grenades, and dragged bodies through Gaza. It confirms that «acts of sexual violence» occurred «across all sites» during the attack, and references forensic findings of partially or fully naked bodies.
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Roberts said the attack was «not just spontaneous — it was a premeditated bloodlust.» He compared it to historical atrocities like the Rape of Nanjing in 1937. «Once Hamas got into a bloodlust, they were going out of their way to murder and kill absolutely anybody who came anywhere near them,» he said.
Despite the horrors, Roberts said the report also includes examples of heroism. For example, of Netta Epstein — a young man who «threw himself on a grenade to save his fiancée’s life» — Roberts said such acts «stand up with the great acts of heroism of any age.»
Released hostages Doron Steinbrecher and Emily Damari, wearing green, are greeted by Israeli soldiers following their arrival in Israel after being held in Gaza since the deadly Oct. 7, 2023 attack, following their release as part of a hostage-prisoner exchange deal between Hamas and Israel, in southern Israel, in a screen grab from a handout video obtained by Reuters on Jan. 19, 2025. ( Israel Defense Forces/Handout via Reuters)
«We have the names in it of everybody who was killed … mostly with the circumstances of their deaths as well,» Roberts added: «Speaking as a historian, there are moments when one thinks of 9/11, or Pearl Harbor, various other attacks like this. They become part of history very quickly, but the actual individuals involved tend to get forgotten.»
Asked what role democracies should play in countering denialism, Roberts answered, «The first is properly to memorialize the victims,» he said. «The second … is to see this appalling act of barbarism for what it is, which is a complete denial of democracy, a blow struck deliberately against civilization, and … the most appalling act of racism.»
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Israeli soldiers remove the bodies of civilians, who were killed days earlier in an attack by Palestinian terrorists on this kibbutz near the border with Gaza, on October 10, 2023, in Kfar Aza, Israel. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)
«Britain should be doing everything in its power to help Israel protect itself forever against such another attack,» Roberts clarified that he was expressing a personal view: «At the moment, it seems [the British government] is not doing that at all.»
In the report’s conclusion, Roberts and his colleagues wrote: «Our report will hopefully permit people to see such denials and justifications for what they really are: a perversion of and rejection of human decency. We owe it to the victims and their grieving families to set down the ghastly unvarnished truth about the sheer barbarism that Hamas and its terrorist allies unleashed on October 7, 2023.»
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Estados Unidos: Trump despide a cientos trabajadores de la Salud y pretende recortar hasta 10 mil empleos
Cientos de trabajadores federales de diversas agencias vinculadas al Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos de Estados Unidos (HHS), desde puestos de alta dirección a médicos, empezaron a recibir notificaciones de despido este martes, informaron medios estadounidenses.
Comienza a cumplirse así la amenaza del presidente Donald Trump, que pretende recortar hasta 10.000 empleos.
La medida forma parte de la política de reestructuración del Departamento de Salud que el responsable de esta cartera, el secretario Robert F. Kennedy Jr., anunció la semana pasada.
Algunos empleados se enteraron este martes de su despido al llegar al trabajo y constatar que sus acreditaciones para pasar los habituales controles de seguridad habían sido desactivadas.
El viernes pasado ya se filtró parte del desglose de los 10.000 empleos que se pretenden destruir: 3.500 puestos en la Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos (FDA); 2.400 en los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC); 1.200 empleos en los Institutos Nacionales de Salud (NIH); y 300 en los Centros de Servicios para los planes médicos Medicare y Medicaid.
De hecho, a los funcionarios responsables de los CDC se les dijo entonces que sus oficinas cerraban.
Los despidos se enmarcan también en un contexto erosión de los derechos de los trabajadores federales, después de que el jueves pasado el presidente estadounidense Donald Trump firmara una orden ejecutiva que pone fin a la negociación colectiva con los sindicatos de agencias con misiones de seguridad nacional como los propios CDC.
Los avisos de este martes pusieron fin a varios días de ansiedad para muchos empleados, algunos de los cuales dijeron que pasaron el fin de semana consumidos con la preocupación de si todavía tenían trabajo.
Una fuente citada por NBC News confirmó que los avisos no se enviaron como estaba previsto el viernes para que «todos los datos pudieran verificarse tres veces durante el fin de semana».
Las divisiones más afectadas por los recortes de empleo incluyen las encargadas de abordar temas como el VIH, mejorar la salud de las minorías y prevenir lesiones, como la violencia armada.
Todo el equipo de la Oficina de Asuntos de Medios de la FDA fue despedido, según fuentes familiarizadas con el asunto.
Los recortes también afectaron a las divisiones que supervisan la aprobación de nuevos medicamentos, proporcionan seguro de salud y responden a brotes de enfermedades infecciosas.
Se prevé que los despidos reduzcan el HHS a 62.000 puestos, eliminando casi una cuarta parte de su personal mediante estos 10.000 despidos y otros 10.000 trabajadores que ya habrían aceptado ofertas de jubilación anticipada y desvinculación voluntaria.
Lo que significa una disminución de aproximadamente un tercio de la plantilla total con respecto a los aproximadamente 92.620 empleados que tenía el departamento en septiembre de 2024.
Además de los despidos en las agencias federales de salud, se están empezando a implementar recortes en los departamentos de salud estatales y locales como resultado de una medida del HHS la semana pasada de retirar más de 11.000 millones de dólares en fondos relacionados con la lucha contra el covid-19.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Israeli police of trying to «topple» his government over what he believes is a «political witch hunt.» In a video statement released on Monday, Netanyahu claimed the police had no evidence against the two aides who were arrested.
Netanyahu was summoned on Monday to testify as part of an ongoing investigation into alleged financial ties between his office and Qatar. The prime minister claimed that he was questioned for an hour before he demanded to see evidence. He said there was nothing.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a statement on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Israeli Government Press Office via AP)
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Eli Feldstein and Yonatan Urich, the aides Netanyahu named in the video, were allegedly arrested on Monday in connection with the investigation. According to reports, Feldstein – a former member of Netanyahu’s team – is suspected of passing messages to journalists on behalf of Qatar while working in the prime minister’s office.
The messages Feldstein is accused of sending to the media allegedly pertained to Qatar’s role in negotiating the return of Israeli hostages, among other things, Israel HaYom reported.
However, the case remains under a gag order, so charges against Feldstein and Urich have not been officially released. The Washington Post reported, citing Israeli media, that Urich and Feldstein are accused of contact with a foreign agent, bribery and fraud.
People protest against the government and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and demand the release of all hostages kidnapped during the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack by Hamas, in Jerusalem, March 31, 2025. (Reuters/Ronen Zvulun)
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The Jerusalem Post confirmed on Tuesday that its editor-in-chief, Zivka Klein, was questioned by police in connection with the Qatar probe. Klein has previously denied having a connection with Feldstein after an Israeli outlet reported that the former Netanyahu aide arranged a trip to Qatar for the journalist.
Netanyahu says the probe, often referred to as «Qatargate,» is intended to stop him from firing Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, who heads the Israeli equivalent of the FBI.
Last month, Netanyahu announced that he would seek to oust Bar over alleged «ongoing distrust.» However, some suspect that it is related to the Shin Bet’s assessment of Oct. 7, which «pointed to a policy led by the government, and the person who has headed it, for years, with emphasis on the year preceding the massacre,» the Times of Israel reported.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Shin Bet Director Ronen Bar (Reuters)
Bar slammed Netanyahu’s «expectation of a duty of personal loyalty, the purpose of which contradicts the public interest, is a fundamentally illegitimate expectation,» according to the Times of Israel.
Israel’s High Court froze Bar’s removal, which was set for April 8, but allowed Netanyahu to interview potential replacements. Netanyahu’s office announced on Monday that he had tapped a former Israeli Navy commander, Vice Adm. Eli Sharvit, to replace Bar.
«Sharvit served in the IDF for 36 years, including five years as commander of the Israel Navy. In that position, he led the force building of the maritime defense of the territorial waters and conducted complex operations against Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran,» Netanyahu’s office tweeted.
Fox News Digital’s Alex Nitzberg and Yonat Friling contributed to this report.
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