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Pro-Palestine activists ‘re-enact October 7’ during ‘resistance festival’
The bizarre street theatre performance seemingly showed the IDF exclusively killing civilians, while presenting Hamas as heroic
June 9, 2025 09:46
The bizarre street theatre performance seemingly showed the IDF exclusively killing civilians, while presenting Hamas as heroic
June 9, 2025 09:46A group of pro-Palestine activists have seemingly re-enacted the October 7, 2023 massacres during a ‘resistance festival’ in Belgium.
The event, organised by Charlesroi for Palestine, featured a performance from a troupe of activist-actors giving a potted history of the Gaza War.
As part of the show, cast members dressed similarly to IDF soldiers were shown shooting people wearing civilian clothing, as well as those dressed medics attending to the dead, using broomsticks as fake machine guns.
They also threw a number of bloodstained white bundles onto the ground – possible representing young children swaddled in sheets.
The mock soldiers were then shown baselessly arresting one of the cast before being chased off by a group of men in combat fatigues and keffiyehs, closely resembling Hamas uniforms.
The group then banded together, arm in arm, while the speakers played a short message including the slogan “from the river to the sea”, which critics claim is a call for the genocide of Jews in Israel.
Elsewhere during the performance, cast members held up signs bearing slogans including “Why is Palestinian resistance called terrorism?” and “Why does the world remain silent about the genocide?”.
A post from the event’s official Instagram account later showed groups of children colouring in watermelon drawings – the fruit has been adopted as a symbol by the pro-Palestine movement – and posing with the faux-Hamas fighters.
It also featured a video of protestors letting of flares with a soundtrack of the slogan: “Revolution is necessary from Brussels to Bethlehem.”
The caption read: “When the media lies and governments are silent, it's up to us to deliver the truth. Like our ancestors, let's tell Palestinian narratives - through stories, theatre, dance and song.”
And a post by one attendee showing the full performance said: “A fantastic third edition of the resistance festival – we resist all the same in the rain.
"Highlight was the theatrical, deeply stirring performance….The performance was powerful and defiant. Because art is not neutral. Art is resistance. Art is political.
"It speaks across borders and tongues. And when institutions fail us - when governments turn away - we turn to the people, to action, to creation.
"Resistance is justified when people are occupied. When there is a genocide, resistance is justified.”
Israel’s ambassador to Belgium, Idit Rosenzweig-Abu, condemned the spectacle in a tweet, saying: “I got this from many people and didn’t post about it because I just couldn’t believe it’s real. But it is.
“Here in Brussels. Re-enactment of the 7/10 massacre. Blood and bodies on the floor and all.
"How can this be Belgium?”