In a bid to counter criticism of Israel’s conduct in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office on Friday released new footage of terrorists killing a father in front of his two sons during the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023, which sparked the war in the Strip.

“Out of respect for the family’s wishes, this video is not for broadcast or distribution inside Israel,” Netanyahu’s office said.

The CCTV footage from the Taasa family home in Netiv Ha’asara, on Gaza’s northern border, shows 46-year-old father Gil rushing his two sons Koren, then 12, and Shay, then 8, out of the house and into an outdoor bomb shelter as terrorists pursue them.

One of the terrorists hurls a grenade into the shelter, and Gil is then seen falling to the ground at the shelter’s entrance after it goes off.

Koren and Shay — still in their underwear as the attack began at 6:29 a.m. — then walk out of the shelter at gunpoint back into the house, passing their father’s lifeless body. They are both bloodied from the grenade fragments.

The two boys are then seen in the........

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