EVIL: Hamas terrorists behead at least 40 children, gun down their families in terrifying kibbutz slaughter
As many as
40 babies and small children were killed before they were beheaded while their families were gunned down after around 70 Hamas terrorists, armed with machine guns and grenades, stormed the usually quiet Kfar Aza kibbutz in southern Israel.
Horrified service members of the
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) told
i24News correspondent Nicole Zedek how they saw the bodies of babies next to their cots, their heads chopped off, in a sign of the depraved acts committed by the terrorists since they attacked Israel on Saturday. The Israeli soldiers were seen comforting each other after witnessing such horrors. The bullet-riddled bodies of Israeli residents lay in the grounds of the kibbutz among burned-out houses, strewn furniture and torched cars. Solemn Israeli soldiers went from house to house to take away the scores of people massacred there.
"You see the babies, the mothers, the fathers, in their bedrooms, in their protection rooms, and how the terrorist kills them. It's not a war, it's not a battlefield. It's a massacre,
it's a terror activity," said Israeli Major General Itai Veruv from the dreadful scene. "It is something that I never saw in my life. It's something that we used to imagine from our grandfathers, and grandmothers in the pogroms in Europe and other places. It's not something that happens in new history," he added. "I saw hundreds of terrorists in full armor, full gear, with all the equipment and all the ability to make a massacre, go from apartment to apartment, from room to room."
Major David Ben Zion, 37, is a reservist called upon to try to rescue any survivors. He said to the news outlet
The Independent: "We saw dead babies, girls. We succeeded in saving some of them but we found most dead in their houses. They came with just one mission – to kill more and more of our people."
Elsewhere bodies of the gunmen lay face down on the ground. A destroyed gate at the perimeter of the kibbutz showed where the gunmen had entered. IDF men were going house to house to retrieve civilian bodies in body bags. They had not been able to take them before as they were still fighting gunmen and working through booby traps. One soldier shouted to the journalists who were invited to survey and cover the scene: "Tell the world what you saw here." This was the first time that IDF allowed media outlets into a massacred community.
"What the journalists saw today is a massacre: children, women, and elderly
who were butchered," said Nir Dinar, an Israeli Defense Force spokesman. "These are animals, worse than ISIS."
Hamas was everywhere spreading terror in Israel
The onslaught at the Kfar Aza kibbutz by the Hamas terrorists is just one of many massacres to emerge since the gunmen launched their surprise attack on Saturday. On Monday, more than a hundred dead bodies were found in Be'eri, another kibbutz in the north-western Negev desert near the eastern border with the Gaza Strip.
According to the videos obtained and authenticated by
CNN,
civilians were killed and taken hostage in the kibbutz, which is home to about 1,000 residents. Heavily armed men arrived in the kibbutz on motorbikes around 7 a.m., and a bloodbath followed. The footage showed militants pulling three bodies out of a car, before stealing the vehicle and driving north. Another video showed armed terrorists taking five Israeli civilians captive, with the bodies of four later seen lying on the ground nearby in another video verified by the news outlet.
The attack on Be’eri came around the same time as Hamas militants descended upon a music festival, known as Nova, just three miles south, shooting revelers at point-blank range and looting their belongings. More than 260 bodies were later found at the festival site.
Meanwhile, in Urim, a kibbutz 10 miles south of Be'eri, residents awoke at 6:30 a.m. on Saturday to the sound of sirens and rushed to above-ground bomb shelters. Members of the community began to see reports of Hamas attacks on kibbutzim and towns near the border.
Wayne Lucas, a Virginia native who serves as a "lone soldier" in the IDF and lives in Urim, said that he spoke to several friends "who were hiding in their houses from the terrorists," and, as the day progressed, he heard of attacks closer to home. On Sunday, after a restless night, residents in Urim heard gunshots close by. "Shortly after 1:30 in the afternoon, we heard gunshots coming from inside the kibbutz. We all dropped everything. We ran as fast as we could to the shelters. We locked the doors, and we were barricading ourselves inside. People had knives and random things to use as weapons," Lucas said.
Another soldier who lives in Urim said he heard gunfire but couldn't make it to the shelter in time. "I heard a round of six bullets being shot right outside my room. I didn't know what I needed to do first: hide, lock my door, find a weapon, run to the nearest shelter?" the soldier, who asked not to be named, told
CNN. "There was nowhere good to hide, and I ended up hiding in my closet."
The soldier and Lucas said that when they were given the all-clear, an Israeli army unit was outside and had apprehended several militants who had tried to storm the kibbutz. (Related:
At least 1000 killed, 1,590 injured so far in Hamas terror attacks on Israel.)
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Sources for this article include:
DailyMail.co.uk
I24News.tv
Edition.CNN.com