Release the Gaza tapes, Mr President

Standing beside Britain’s Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, President Trump declared that he had seen the horrific images of Hamas atrocities — babies butchered, women raped, civilians massacred. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu echoed the same. President Biden once did too, before quietly walking it back. But the question that refuses to die is this: where are these tapes? Human rights organisations, journalists, and global observers have pressed Israel to release them. Not curated clips shown to diplomats in back rooms. Not brief montages spliced together by the military. But the specific images invoked by leaders to justify their outrage — the ones that supposedly show babies stuffed into ovens, women brutalized, and atrocities so unspeakable they became the pretext for […]