Video game recreating October 7 atrocities offered to Canadian gamers on Steam

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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