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A video game glorifying the October 7 attacks on Israel is available for 
purchase on Steam, a digital distribution service.

The game, Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, was 
originally released in April 2022. An update released following the 
Hamas invasion now allows players to recreate certain atrocities, such 
as attacking an Israeli military base using motorized paragliders, a 
tactic used by Hamas on October 7.

Valve Corporation, the parent company of Steam, one of the world’s 
largest online gaming marketplaces, did not respond to National Post’s 
request for comment prior to publication.

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

Gameplay footage posted to YouTube shows militants chanting Allahu Akbar 
(“God is great”) 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.”


https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/fursan-al-aqsa-the-knights-of-the-al-aqsa-mosque



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