For several days, the Steam platform has been distributing a game whose aim is to participate in the terrorist attacks of October 7, 2024.
“Relive the glory of October 7, the day the Palestinian resistance humiliated Israel.” On November 11, the official Twitter account for the game Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque announced an update to the title, including the possibility for the player to virtually replicate Hamas terrorist attacks. A title distributed in France by the company Valve, via its Steam platform.
With Tech&Co, the Union of Jewish Students of France (UEJF) announces that it has filed a complaint against Valve, as well as the game developer, Nidal Nijm, based in Brazil, for advocating terrorism.
“Mercantile and deadly propaganda”
Still with Tech&Co, the association “asks the Minister of the Interior to intervene to remove this game which offers French users the opportunity to reproduce the crimes of October 7.”
“This game promotes terrorism among a young audience, possibly minors and susceptible to terrorist propaganda. There is therefore a very particular urgency. This propaganda, mercantile and deadly, which ideologically arms those who switch to act, must stop immediately” believes the UEJF to Tech&Co.
If the game existed since 2022 – and was already criticized for the possibility offered to kill Israelis – the recent update from its developer integrated a mission consisting of participating in the Hamas attack of October 7.
“Where are those wearing the explosive belts? Where are they? Come here, I want an explosive belt to blow me up on top of the Zionists!” can we hear, at the start of the game’s trailer. Content which has also pushed the British authorities to block its distribution in the United Kingdom.
According to Steam statistics, the title has been sold between 8,000 and 35,000 times, for around fifteen euros. Contacted by Tech&Co, Steam has not yet responded.
