Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., wiped away tears after they left the room where the video was shown. Many senators declined to comment when they left, asking for a moment to process what they had seen.
"We saw terrorists celebrating as they murdered children, as they murdered women, as they desecrated the bodies," Cruz said. "We saw them beheading bodies with knives. We heard audio of terrorists calling their parents, celebrating the people they murdered. There is a level of evil and hate and depravity that defies words, and it is astonishing that there are still some in America and across the globe who deny these atrocities occurred."
Some of the other senators who attended included Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who did not give a morning floor speech Tuesday like he normally does.
He told reporters later in the day that he had not delivered remarks because he was so taken aback after having watched the video.
“It was jarring and harrowing. It shook all of us up in the room. I had to go sit in my office for a half-hour alone after seeing it,” Schumer said.
It’s important that we see it now in real time, because Hamas has vowed to repeat this day over and over, over and over, and there were over 1,000 people massacred."
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"We saw terrorists celebrating as they murdered children, as they murdered women, as they desecrated the bodies," Cruz said. "We saw them beheading bodies with knives. We heard audio of terrorists calling their parents, celebrating the people they murdered. There is a level of evil and hate and depravity that defies words, and it is astonishing that there are still some in America and across the globe who deny these atrocities occurred."
Some of the other senators who attended included Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who did not give a morning floor speech Tuesday like he normally does.
He told reporters later in the day that he had not delivered remarks because he was so taken aback after having watched the video.
“It was jarring and harrowing. It shook all of us up in the room. I had to go sit in my office for a half-hour alone after seeing it,” Schumer said.
It’s important that we see it now in real time, because Hamas has vowed to repeat this day over and over, over and over, and there were over 1,000 people massacred."
Dozens of senators view harrowing video of Hamas attack on Israel
Israel has shown the 46-minute recording featuring raw video from Hamas to lawmakers, journalists and other groups around the world since Oct. 7.
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