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Published October 14, 2023, 7:32 p.m. ET
A Palestinian man carries an injured girl after an Israeli attack in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday. AFP via Getty Images
Burnt cribs. Damn strollers. Crying children.
Hamas terrorists’ brutal attack on Israel that began last week and Israel’s retaliatory attack on Gaza have slaughtered innocents – hundreds of Israeli and Palestinian children.
Harrowing images showing photos of Israeli babies burned by the terrorists and a haunting image of a bloody crib posted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are being seen online around the world, along with photos of the dead and injured Palestinian children, some of whom are carried in the arms of grieving relatives.
More than 700 children are estimated to have been killed and another 2,450 injured in Gaza since the war began on October 7, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said on Saturday that at least 724 children had been killed in Israeli airstrikes.
A Palestinian child injured in an Israeli rocket attack is admitted to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Saturday.HAITHAM IMAD/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
Exact figures on the number of children killed or injured in Israel when Hamas surprisingly slaughtered civilians on October 7 were not immediately available, but dozens of Israeli children are known to have been killed.
Documents reportedly seized by Israel Defense Forces from dead Hamas terrorists indicate that Hamas wanted to specifically attack elementary schools and a youth center in Israel’s Kibbutz Kfar Sa’ad to “kill as many people as possible,” hostages to take them and quickly move them to the Gaza Strip, NBC News reported Friday.
“Most Israeli children were either murdered or kidnapped,” a New York-based Jewish activist with knowledge of the situation told The Post. “I don’t remember seeing anything anecdotal about Israeli children being hospitalized. They were basically killed, kidnapped or abandoned.”
A Palestinian girl cries after Israeli airstrikes in the southern Gaza Strip.Portal A Palestinian woman and two young girls look angry and frightened after an Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip.Portal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted this photo of a bloody crib with the caption “Hamas is worse as ISIS.”Benjamin Netanyahu / Twitter A burned-out stroller is seen along with other personal belongings on the side of the road near the Gaza border after a Hamas attack killed several civilians.Getty Images
An Israeli-American dual citizen, 32-year-old gardener and peace activist Hayim Katsman, was murdered by Hamas terrorists on Kibbutz Holit where he lived – but managed to save three lives, including two children, CNN reported.
Katsman protected a neighbor, Avital Alajem, from bullets with his body – and that neighbor was later led by the terrorists a mile away to Gaza, where he kidnapped another family’s four-month-old baby and four-year-old boy.
When they arrived in Gaza, the terrorists abandoned the three for some reason – and Alajem had the presence of mind to escape and make his way back to the kibbutz with the two small children.
A doctor examines a Palestinian girl who died in an Israeli bombing in Deir al-Balah, south of the Gaza Strip. AP A Palestinian medic carries the body of a baby killed in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip, Saturday, October 14, 2023.AP
“I just think it’s scary,” his mother, Hannah Wacholder Katsman, told The Forward. “My father grew up in Poland. He survived the Holocaust with false papers. My mother was a refugee from Germany who left the country after Hitler came to power. It scares me that my son died hiding in a closet.”
In Gaza, where Netanyahu and President Joe Biden have warned of continued reprisals, Palestinian activists say their children are bearing the brunt of the tragedy.
A Palestinian mother’s wail as she gave a final kiss to her dead baby swaddled in white after it was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza on Thursday was just one of many videos almost too painful to watch.
Cars and a stroller left at the site of a rocket attack from Gaza over the weekend are seen on a main road near the entrance to Israel’s Kibbutz Kfar Aza on the Gaza Strip border, Oct. 10, 2023. AFP via Getty Images
“My four children eat one meal a day: sandwiches. “There is no water, no electricity, no internet, no fuel in all of Gaza,” said Gaza-based Mohammad Abu Rukbeh of Defense for Children Palestine.
“I carry my children on foot because they are too paralyzed with fear to walk while we search for a safe place. There is no safe place in Gaza as Israeli forces fire bombs in all directions at all hours of the day. We are isolated people facing the fiercest machines of war.”
With wires
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