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Marco Rubio and Jacky Rosen hold closed-press Senate screening of Oct. 7 footage
By Miles Schachner
Senators Marco Rubio (R-Fla) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev) held a private screening of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel Tuesday for the Senate, according to multiple reports.
About 40 Democrats and Republicans watched the footage, which ran for 47 minutes and was intended to show Senators the barbarity of Hamas, Rosen said.
"On Oct. 7, Hamas launched the worst terrorist attack in Israel’s history — the single deadliest day for the Jews since the Holocaust. Given the effort by some individuals and organizations around the world to distort and deny what happened that day, it was important that, as policymakers, we bear witness to the full extent of the atrocities committed by Hamas,” Rosen said, according to the Jewish News Syndicate.
“The one thing that struck me was how proud and gleeful these people were with what they were doing to civilians, children, people sitting at home having breakfast and kids at a rave party,” Rubio added.
“I thought that my colleagues would want to see it. That’s why I held the viewing, for them to get clear insight into what happened.”
Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Herzog was also in attendance and spoke to the group prior to the screening.