In a chilling video confession obtained by The Daily Mail, a father and son from Gaza have revealed to Israeli investigators how they killed and raped innocent civilians after taking part in the Hamas invasion on Oct. 7.
Video: Israeli interrogation of father and son confessing to rape and murder of civilians on Oct. 7
Jamal Hussein Ahmad Radi, 47, and his son Abdullah, 18, were captured by IDF forces in Gaza and questioned about the atrocities they committed in a kibbutz near the border. The video footage shows the men detailing their actions, including murdering civilians in their homes, kidnapping others, and brutally raping women before shooting them.
In the weeks after the invasion that resulted in over 1,200 fatalities and prompted harsh Israeli retaliation in Gaza, details emerged about the horrific sexual violence committed by the terrorists.
Jamal Hussein Ahmad Radi, a father of seven and Hamas Security Service member, along with his son and other terrorists, forcibly entered the Nir Oz kibbutz. Showing no remorse, Radi stated, "In each house where we found someone, we either killed them or kidnapped them." When questioned further, he confessed, "In the first house I found a woman and her husband, and we hit them with fire and killed them...they were in their late 40s." He then admitted to raping one woman, recounting, "She was screaming, she was crying, I did what I did, I raped her. I threatened her with my gun to take her clothes off, I remember she was wearing jean shorts, that's about it. I don't know what happened to her, I was there for fifteen minutes and then I left."
However, his son Abdullah claimed that his father killed the woman after they finished raping her. "My father raped her, then I did and then my cousin did and then we left but my father killed the woman after we finished raping her. Before this woman, we had raped another girl as well, I killed two people, I raped two people, and I broke into five houses," he told investigators.
The confessions corroborated the report released by Pramila Patten, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, two months ago. After questioning several victims, she stated, "What I witnessed in Israel were scenes of unspeakable violence perpetrated with shocking brutality."
Patten visited four kibbutzim and morgues during her month-long visit earlier this year, speaking to 34 survivors. She described "a catalog of the most extreme and inhumane forms of killing, torture and other horrors."
Women who were at the Nova music festival were also victims of sexual violence related to the conflict during the attack on Oct. 7.
Commenting on the confessions video, an IDF spokesperson told MailOnline, "Over the past months, we've seen countless evidence of the brutal violence used by Hamas on October 7th, including harrowing acts of gender-based and sexual violence. These confessions further prove that any attempt to deny the horrors of Oct. 7, and discredit the testimonies of witnesses, survivors, and freed hostages, is part of a campaign to de-legitimize Israel, and to promote the justification of terrorism."
The spokesperson added that both father and son were in custody awaiting trial.
