What REALLY Happened on October 7th? | Al Jazeera Filmmaker Richard Sanders

Richard Sanders is an award winning journalist and film director with over 25 years experience. He was Senior Producer on Al Jazeera’s The Labour Files, and his latest film with Al Jazeera’s Investigation Unit, October 7, has just been released.

Al Jazeera says, “the I-Unit reveals widespread human rights abuses by Hamas fighters and others who followed them through the fence from Gaza into Israel.”

But the investigations also finds that “many of the worst stories that came out in the days following the attack were false. This was especially true of atrocities that were used repeatedly by politicians in Israel and the West to justify the ferocity of the bombardment of the Gaza Strip, such as the mass killing of babies and allegations of widespread and systematic rape.”

Watch the Al Jazeera documentary here:    • October 7 | Al Jazeera Investigations  

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0:00 - Introduction
02:11 - Why did you think it was an important documentary to make?
05:55 - Historical context to 7th October: 2018-19 Great March of Return
09:56 - How the Netanyahu government helped keep Hamas afloat in Gaza
12:11 - The failures of the mainstream media since 7th October 2023
14:27 - Israel's intelligence failure
17:09 - What is the Hannibal Directive?
22:11 - Israel's claims of 'beheaded babies'
26:43 - How easy was it to speak to the people you needed for the documentary?
28:33 - Israel's claims of widespread sexual violence
35:21 - The importance of reporting accurately
37:40 - What can come out of this film?