Chris Cuomo Delivers Powerful Monologue After Viewing Hamas’ Atrocities: ‘They Enjoyed Mutilating’ and Celebrated with ‘Bloody Corpses’

NewsNation anchor Chris Cuomo delivered an impassioned monologue about atrocities committed by Hamas over the course of its October 7 attack on Israel Thursday night after visiting the Israeli consulate to view raw footage and photographs from it.

“Today’s been a heavy day because three of us went to the Israeli consulate to watch some of the footage that we’ve never seen,” began Cuomo, who went on to argue that he believes “people should see this.”

“I understand the sensitivity of the families. I understand the concern that if you don’t want to believe that October 7 happened, well, then it doesn’t matter what you see. But I do believe for many, for many, that there’s an aspect of this that I don’t think we appreciate,” argued the anchor, who compared the attack to 9/11 because both attacks sought to rob the victimized nations of who they are.

He continued:

If an enemy wanted to make sure that Israel would come for them, the message would be, ‘We’re going 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. And I was not aware of that before. I had seen that bodies had been burned. But I did not understand or appreciate how intentional the effort was. They did it methodically. You hear it in the voices, the commands, the ease, the excitement, of finding and mutilating victims, being told, ‘Let them play with it.’ Merely murdering innocents was the least of it. Of course you see that and you can see that anywhere in the world these days. People pointing weapons, shooting the innocent, shooting people running away, shooting women, shooting the defenseless, people scared out of their minds about what’s happening. This was not death from above. It was death in your face, hands-on and personal. They enjoyed mutilating, and went back and celebrated in the streets with heads and bloody corpses as trophies. This was absolute genocide. It is a word that people are misapplying, and this is where it does apply. Even more important to the terrorists, apparently, was what they left behind. Charred reminders of a Holocaust. The obvious desire to see as many Jews utterly destroyed as possible. Families melted together on purpose. And yes, there are women dead, bloody groins, twisted, disfigured legs. The IDF says this is not a morbid coincidence, it’s a part of a pattern of rape and torture. 47 minutes is just a 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.

Cuomo concluded by lamenting the suffering in the Gaza Strip, but also asserting that “this is not tit-for-tat, this is not ‘you did to us, and now might will make right,’ they are fueled by the deepest fears of genocide, because those fears are real.”

“I am not trying to erase, or in any way mitigate the massive death toll of civilians in Gaza, or diminish the obvious need for the violence to stop. If anything, after seeing this video today, there is an increased urgency to avoid what could still come because this could get much worse,” declared Cuomo. “When people have been given reason to believe it is you or them, they are capable of anything. And while people are moved to absolute outrage by what they see, I’m telling you, Israel is doing far less than it could.”

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