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Dozens of infants and children were killed by Hamas militants in Saturday morning’s terrorist attack in Kfar Aza, a kibbutz in southern Israel: “An unimaginable horror”
“It’s not a war, it’s not a battlefield. It’s a massacre.”
General Itai Veruv of the Israeli army struggles to find the right words. However, the syllable is aimed at the press and leads the journalists to Kibbutz Kfar Aza. Witness the horror. “You see children, their mothers, their fathers. In their bedrooms, in the rooms where they thought they were safe. You can see how they were killed. From our grandparents’ stories about pogroms in Europe, we thought we could only imagine it. We didn’t think we would be able to see certain scenes again today. I’ve never seen anything like it.
These terrible scenes will go down in the history of this war. The massacre at Kibbutz Kfar Aza.
The dead – riddled with bullets, some burned – are everywhere. On the roadsides, in their gardens, in houses blackened by smoke.
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And then there are the children’s bodies. About forty, according to Nicole Zedek from i24News, among others, who cited military sources on site. “Some of them no longer have heads. Blown up by shots fired at close range. Or separated,” he explains. “It’s an unimaginable horror.”
Entry into Kfar Aza was permitted three days after the Hamas attack – which began at dawn on Saturday and has so far left at least a thousand Israeli dead and over 100 kidnapped – while Israeli forces are still taking away bodies of the victims. The army said the delay in recovering the bodies was because the fighting was still ongoing and the terrorists had left behind deadly traps.
Some of the houses in the kibbutz – writes the Portal agency – were completely burned down. “Tell the world what you saw here,” an Israeli soldier shouted to a Portal reporter.
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October 10, 2023 (modified October 10, 2023 | 5:18 p.m.)
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