The Disappearing Evidence: IDF Accused of Wiping October 7 Footage
Explosive testimonies from IDF soldiers reveal allegations that the military ordered the deletion of sensitive raw footage and recordings from the October 7 massacre, with significant documentation reportedly vanishing after being collected from victims' phones and security cameras.
A specialized IDF unit, originally established in 2020 for battlefield documentation, was deployed to the Gaza envelope on October 7 to gather visual evidence of the massacre. However, shocking testimonies from soldiers and civilians now suggest that significant portions of this raw footage have vanished or were intentionally deleted under orders from high-ranking officials.
The Mission: Collecting the Evidence
According to a report by Nir Dvori on Channel 12 News, the unit's objective was to consolidate every piece of footage from the scenes of the attack. This included data from:
Soldiers utilized military-issued iPhones without SIM cards to upload materials in real-time to an internal IDF Telegram group. Among the documented footage was a scene from a bypass road showing dozens of terrorists arriving in vehicles, including an elderly operative entering Israel on crutches.
Allegations of Deletion
While the soldiers promised residents they would preserve the materials, members of the unit claim the reality was different.
"We promised a man from Be'eri that we wouldn't delete anything and that we would return everything, but that didn't happen," a source within the unit stated. "Everything was deleted. We were ordered to do nothing [to save the data] and then return the devices. From some of the phones we returned, we deleted the content, video clips and recordings of calls from people in the envelope and the party."
Sources allege the directives came directly from the Operations Directorate, with the explicit instruction: "Collect everything and leave nothing behind."
The "Editing Room" in Tel Aviv
While troops gathered materials under fire, a dedicated "editing war room" was established on a specially rented floor of an office building in Tel Aviv. There, professional video editors processed the footage.
While some of these materials were compiled into the "Bearing Witness" film shown to international diplomats to prove the scale of the atrocities, soldiers claim a significant portion of the raw footage has "disappeared" within the military system. This data has reportedly never reached the bereaved families or civilian investigative teams.
The IDF has not issued a response to these allegations.