Outburst
"Hamas and Israel cooperated" - Father of October 7 Victim Claims
At a Knesset conference, Meir Atias, whose daughter Dorin was murdered at the Nova Festival on October 7, delivered a searing speech accusing Israel’s leadership of betrayal and demanding full accountability for the failures of that day.
In an emotional and furious address at a special Knesset conference on Sunday, Meir Atias, father of Dorin Atias, who was murdered at the Nova music festival during the October 7 Hamas attack, accused Israel’s leadership of “the mother of all betrayals.”
“Don’t call it Black Saturday,” Atias shouted. “Call it the Saturday of Betrayal.”
Atias said he believes Israel’s top security establishment failed the people and “betrayed and slaughtered our children.”
Speaking directly to lawmakers and journalists, he rejected the official investigations into the events of October 7, calling them “fake and whitewashed.”
“All these so-called investigations are trying to fool us,” he said. “Do you really think you can trick us? It won’t work. We will fight for those children. This betrayal must be written into the history books, that the IDF high command betrayed us and slaughtered our children.”
Atias, whose 24-year-old daughter was among the victims of the massacre, described her as “full of light, love, and plans for 200 more years.”
He said Israeli society has “erased the murdered” the victims from the national narrative.
“You stopped talking about them,” he said, holding up her photo. “You call it ‘the conception,’ ‘Black Saturday,’ or any other clean term, but that’s just to make us forget. We won’t forget. We won’t let you.”
He further alleged, that Israel’s security services were complicit in the October 7 failures, claiming that “Shin Bet and Hamas worked together.”
Atias directly named Ronen Bar, head of the Shin Bet, as “the father of betrayal,” saying,
“Ronen Bar won’t walk freely anymore, sipping coffee as if nothing happened. He knows he’s marked.”
The remarks drew gasps and tears from the audience and have since circulated widely on Israeli social media, sparking renewed debate over accountability for October 7 and the government’s handling of the attack and its aftermath.
“We don’t need the IDF’s reports or the Shin Bet’s reports,” Atias concluded. “We’re conducting our own investigation, and piece by piece, the puzzle fits. It’s clear what happened: there was betrayal.”