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Four people left home together for the Nova music festival on October 7. Only Ziv Abud came home that night. Her nephew Amit Ben Avida and his girlfriend Karin Schwartzman were murdered inside the roadside shelter where they had taken refuge. Her partner, Eliya Cohen, was shot, dragged from the shelter and kidnapped to Gaza. Ziv survived beneath the bodies of those murdered around her. Eliya survived 505 days in Hamas captivity, enduring chains, starvation, violence and psychological torture. For those 505 days, he believed Ziv was dead. For those same 505 days, she fought to bring him home. Asked what he would say today to the terrorists who abducted and tortured him, Eliya’s answer was simple: “I won. I’m here.” Two survivors of October 7. Two very different battles to stay alive. And a future Hamas failed to take from them.

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Three years after October 7, the memories remain painfully vivid. For HonestReporting staff, that day was not something experienced from a distance. Some were in southern Israel as the massacre unfolded. Some lost relatives, friends and neighbors. Others served in the IDF. All have lived with the grief, trauma and consequences ever since. These are their personal reflections on terror, loss, resilience, memory and the determination to keep fighting for the truth. #October7

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October 7 was a massacre. Thousands of lives were shattered. And somehow, three years of coverage shows how major media increasingly treat it as background noise. The attack gets blurred. The perpetrators disappear. The victims are pushed to the margins. The massacre should be the story – not a footnote to its own anniversary. HonestReporting's analysis exposes that pattern:

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A photographer has to know when not to take the picture, as much as they know when to click the shutter. That ethical breach of standards was on display on October 7. Palestinian freelancers working for the wire services filmed the border breach, the tank, the abductions, and the body of Shani Louk from close range. One later said he withheld footage of Israeli hostages' captors so that they could not be identified. Documenting an atrocity is not the same as being embedded within it.

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For 728 days, Avinatan Or was held hostage by Hamas in Gaza. Most of that time was spent alone in a tunnel. He was kidnapped from the Nova music festival on October 7 and subjected to horrific conditions in captivity. Just before his release, one of his Hamas captors made sure he understood one thing: “We will carry out October 7th all over again.” October 7 was not something Hamas wanted to move past. It was something it promises to repeat. Listen to Avinatan's testimony, and the warning he carried home with him. Source: Uvda, Israel’s Channel 12 News

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Three years after October 7, the fight for truth is far from over. Dr. Cochav Elkayam-Levy has spent years preserving evidence of the atrocities committed against Israeli women and confronting their denial. In a powerful interview with Ben M Freeman, she explains why October 7 denial is unlike anything we have seen before: “The Holocaust was denied after the fact. October 7th was denied as it happened.” Read the full conversation here 👇 https://buff.ly/ubu2s9A

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Yonatan Savitsky danced at David Lange's wedding two months before October 7. He was killed at Kissufim after helping save 50 lives. Later, David lost his stepson Gilad in Lebanon. Why he refuses to walk away: "Because for some of us, October 7 never really ended." https://honestreporting.com/october-7-reflections-it-never-ended-a-personal-account-of-trauma-loss-and-israel-advocacy/

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For those fighting Israel’s media battles, October 7 was never just another story. The headlines, accusations and online abuse collided with a reality of sirens, funerals, friends called to reserve duty and loved ones lost. Simon Plosker reflected a year after October 7 on what it means to defend Israel in the media while living through the same war at home. As we commemorate the third anniversary, what he wrote then still rings true. #October7 #Israel #MediaBias

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Dr. Cochav Elkayam-Levy didn't set out to become the guardian of an archive. But when the human rights world looked away from the sexual violence of October 7th, the erasure didn't paralyze her. It drove her. She founded the Civil Commission on October 7th Crimes by Hamas Against Women and Children and led the creation of "Silence No More," a landmark report drawing on 430+ testimonies and over 1,800 hours of visual material, identifying 13 distinct patterns of sexual violence committed during the massacre and against hostages in captivity. When institutions she had trusted failed, she fought for the truth anyway. "We are losing the sense of knowing what happened," she says. "We have to preserve the truth,” she told HonestReporting. After everything she has seen, Cochav still believes in goodness. "We will rise. I already feel it in my bones." Read our full interview with Dr. Elkayam-Levy here: https://buff.ly/caqbWao

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Hamas didn’t just commit barbaric atrocities on October 7th... they filmed themselves doing it. They livestreamed murders on their victims’ own accounts. They filmed their crimes on GoPros. They sent images of their victims to family members. And they called home to brag about “killing Jews.” Hamas wanted their crimes documented to spread fear and maximize terror. And even with the footage in plain sight, the world still blamed Israel. Share this video. Share the truth about October 7th.

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Sabine Taasa survived October 7. Her husband, Gil, was murdered by Hamas, shielding their two young sons from a grenade. Her 17-year-old son, Or, was murdered by terrorists at Zikim Beach. At a screening of NAZA in the Netherlands, she confronted the film’s directors over what their documentary leaves out. “You’re talking about collateral damage? My husband and my son were murdered by Hamas. Where does this appear in your film?” Audience members responded: “We don’t care.” “Shame on you.” “We don’t want to hear.” "Go back to the ovens of the Holocaust. We need another Hitler to destroy you.” A crowd willingly watched a film about Palestinians allegedly “targeted by Israel,” while silencing an Israeli woman whose own family was targeted and murdered by Palestinian terrorists. The callousness is chilling. The hypocrisy is impossible to miss.

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No, Mahmoud Khalil, asking whether you condemn Hamas is NOT a “silly question.” Hamas raped, tortured, murdered, kidnapped, and burned alive innocent people on October 7, 2023. If you cannot bring yourself to condemn those who perpetrated the October 7 massacre, why should anyone believe your vision of a “Free Palestine” includes Jews living alongside Palestinians in peace?

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Three years ago, Hamas murdered 1,200 people in a single day and filmed it themselves. Tomorrow, on the anniversary of the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, at least 75 anti-Israel protests are planned around the world. In New York: "Glory to the martyrs, victory to the resistance." In Toronto: "Honouring Our Martyrs." In Montreal: "3 years of resistance." Let us be very clear: on October 7th, terrorists invaded Israel to murder, rape, kidnap, and burn Israelis alive. When these groups celebrate "3 years of resistance" on that exact date, that's the "resistance" they mean. Families will be lighting candles for their murdered loved ones. These groups chose that day to rally. They had 364 others. If you're attending a memorial for the Israelis murdered on October 7th, stay aware and stay safe. 🕯️

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Why do so many young Palestinians turn to terrorism? It starts with their education. Between UNRWA textbooks and Hamas TV shows, violence is glorified and pushes kids toward "martyrdom." Hamas training camps turn childhood into terror prep, with weapons replacing toys. This isn't just education—it's grooming the next generation for violence.

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“Jewish lobbies” pulling strings in France. Israel able to “push the button.” Mossad behind the unrest. No, this wasn’t some fringe conspiracy channel. It aired on CNN Türk, under the CNN brand. When antisemitic conspiracy theories are packaged as serious analysis, the questions aren’t only what was said, but why CNN’s affiliate thought it was acceptable to broadcast at all. CNN should be asking those questions too, and making clear what consequences, if any, its affiliate faces for broadcasting this under its name.

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When Hamas itself confirms that a man listed by the International Federation of Journalists was also one of its operatives, the “journalist” label deserves a closer look. Hamza Abu Salmiya wasn’t just filming Hamas drills. He was filmed undergoing military training with weapons, and Hamas says he belonged to the Gaza Brigade’s Beach Battalion. So why was he on the IFJ’s list of journalists?

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Three years after October 7, too much media coverage still manages to obscure the most basic facts: who started the war, what happened that day, and what Israel has been fighting ever since. News24’s Chris Kenny cuts through the fog with something that should never be remarkable: clear, unapologetic context about the Hamas-led massacre and its consequences.

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Three years after October 7, Greg Sheridan is saying what far too many in Australia still refuse to confront: antisemitism has exploded, and parts of the political and cultural left have helped give it legitimacy. From universities to taxpayer-funded cultural institutions, anti-Israel ideology has too often blurred into hostility toward Jews. Sheridan’s verdict is unequivocal: Australia’s treatment of its Jewish minority is shameful.

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Palestinian Islamic Jihad just announced its youngest dead operative: 13 years old. A 14-year-old was named the same day. Hamas’s own footage shows child soldiers in training. The IDF published a video showing an adolescent being used to move weapons, and the Hamas operative trailing behind him. The terrorists are saying it themselves. Why isn't the media?

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A rabbi picks Dara Horn up at the airport with a warning: the security guard at the town's Jewish day school had just been arrested. He'd been posting online about murdering the children at recess. That was before October 7th. On October 8th, much of the Jewish world woke up to what she'd been watching for years, as friends, coworkers, even spouses started chanting "globalize the intifada." So what do we do now? Horn says we've been fighting antisemitism the wrong way. It isn't a prejudice. It's a lie, and you beat a lie by asking who profits from it. Her advice to every student facing a crowd chanting slogans: You can answer back. "You don't need a PhD to defeat an argument that's three words long." What you need is courage. 🎧 Listen to the full episode here: https://buff.ly/mnQgq5e

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