Disturbing video game glorifying the horrific October 7th atrocities on innocent Israelis by Hamas is being offered to Canadian gamers on Steam digital service

The game was pulled from Steam in Britain after drawing the attention of counter-terrorism agents, but was still on sale at a discount in Canada during and after Black Friday. The game, Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, released following the Hamas invasion, allows players to recreate certain atrocities carried out, such as attacking an Israeli military base using motorized paragliders and executions of Israelis in cold blood, some of the tactics used by Hamas on October 7th.

National Post  The trailer for the updated gameplay features an Arabic narrator telling players: “Where are those who carry the explosive belts? Where are they? Come here, I want an explosive belt to blow up myself on the Zionists!!! It is a jihad, a jihad of victory or martyrdom!”

Gameplay footage posted to YouTube shows militants chanting “Allahu Akbar” and “From the river to the sea,” a Hamas rallying cry associated with calling for the destruction of Israel. The game also allows players to dress as keffiyeh-clad militants with green headbands, a popular identifier worn by Hamas terrorists, and identifies Israeli forces with an inverted red triangle above them — another symbol used in Hamas propaganda videos.

Death sequences after a player is killed show a bloodied hand laid across a Palestinian flag captioned: “You became a martyr. Rejoice, O mother of the martyr. Rejoice! Prepare your son for his marriage (in paradise), tie the band on all your pain and spread his wedding handkerchief, spread your anger against the oppressor, his injustice must be stopped.”

“Fursan al-Aqsa is not a mere ‘game,’ but a display in utter sadism,” the International Legal Forum’s CEO Arsen Ostrovsky told National Post in a written statement. “In glorifying the barbaric atrocities of October 7th, the creator is effectively contributing to the recruitment and radicalization of potential terrorists and inciting them to recreate and carry out such gruesome acts of violence.”

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