Peter Dutton visits the site of the Nova Festival  Pic: Facebook

He posted on Facebook: “On October 7, with eerie echoes of Nazi barbarism, Hamas terrorists murdered 1,200 innocent civilians, including hundreds of young people attending the Nova Music Festival and families living at Kibbutz Be’eri near Gaza.

In an op-ed published in the Herald Sun and the Daily Telegraph, he penned: “I visited a kibbutz and the site of the Nova music festival where innocent people were butchered.I was also shown 47 minutes of horrific, heartbreaking and uncensored footage – taken from body cams, dashcams, mobile phones and CCTV – of the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7. I’ve seen some shocking things in my life as a former police officer on the beat and as a Home Affairs Minister who handled terrorism and child exploitation cases. But this footage shakes you to the core.

If the anti-Israel protesters who march in the streets of democracies around the world and serve as Hamas’ useful cheer squads watched even just a few minutes of this footage, I believe many would down their hate-filled placards in horror.”

Peter Dutton and collage of the victims    Pic: Facebook

He added: “I also travelled to Israel because, beyond my words of support for Israelis since October 7, I wanted to show that I stand with Israel, that the Coalition stands with Israel, and that Australia stands with its ally. I was able to do that in meetings with Israel’s President Isaac Herzog, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his key advisers, Foreign Minister Israel Katz, and other government officials.”

Peter Dutton wrote that work leaders in democratic countries should “act with moral courage” and “to speak up with moral clarity to disarm the anti-Semitic propaganda peddled by the enemies of Israel. And to distinguish the lawful from the lawless, civilisation from barbarism, and good from evil.”

In a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he discussed ABC’s bias against Israel