According to Cohen, Hamas forced him to watch the uncensored October 7 documentary released by the IDF.

The 12-year-old watched about 45 minutes of footage that portrays the evidence of the gruesome attack carried out by Hamas terrorists. Many of the scenes take place in Nahal Oz where Eitan is from.

“They forced him and other children to watch it. The entire movie. Whenever another child would cry during the screening, they would threaten them with a rifle to silence them,” Cohen explained.

“[They] would beat him,” Cohen added.

“He is a 12-year-old boy. We are talking about a 12-year-old. Maybe I am naive, but I did not expect to hear such descriptions. I wanted to hold onto the hope that he was treated well, but that was not the case. They are monsters,” Cohen concluded.

[That’s a conclusion we all reached from the edited footage of the massacres. Clearly, Hamas revels in its barbarity, so much so that it wants to keep repeating the trauma of it on Israelis, either virtually or in new attacks of the same grotesquerie. Why are we bothering to negotiate with monsters such as these? — Ed]