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The October 8 Gaza cars

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The account John Kiriakou has passed on from a Greek journalist friend, an investigative reporter for a major Athens newspaper who reached the Gaza envelope on October 8, 2023, one day after the Hamas attack, and saw a line of Israeli cars with their occupants still dead inside and *"giant rocket holes in the roofs of the cars,"* damage inconsistent with the ground assault the Israeli government has said killed them. Kiriakou uses the anecdote as an example of a story he does not have to speculate about, his friend was on the ground with an IDF handler who refused to explain what had happened.

The October 8 Gaza cars is John Kiriakou’s account, offered on the American Exception podcast, of what a Greek investigative journalist friend saw on the road into the Gaza envelope the day after the October 7 attack, a scene Kiriakou reads against the official Israeli story that the occupants were killed by Hamas ground forces.

The Greek journalist’s account

Kiriakou frames the source. “I have a friend who is a Greek journalist at one of the big investigative newspapers in Athens, and he told me that he got to Gaza on October 8. And of course, you know, you have to go in with an IDF handler. But he said going into Gaza that day, there was a line of cars still with dead Israelis inside them. But with giant rocket holes in the roofs of the cars.”[1][2]

“And he said he asked his handler, ‘What happened here?’ And he said the IDF handler said, ‘Don’t worry about that. Ask questions when we get to Gaza.’ They wouldn’t even answer the questions.”[2]

The Highway of Death comparison

Aaron Good put the scene against the Highway of Death of the first Gulf War, and Kiriakou accepted the comparison and volunteered his own recollection: “I went to the highway of death in the days after it took place. And you know, at the time, we thought this was an act of genius. It was a traditional flanking manoeuvre ordered by General Schwarzkopf, and we took the Iraqis by surprise, and blah blah blah. That wasn’t it at all. It was a crime against humanity.”[3][4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ American Exception, 2026-07-31. 07:19 on YouTube · Transcript
  2. ↑ American Exception, 2026-07-31. 07:51 on YouTube · Transcript
  3. ↑ American Exception, 2026-07-31. 08:22 on YouTube · Transcript
  4. ↑ American Exception, 2026-07-31. 08:54 on YouTube · Transcript

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