The Israeli government has released hard-to-see photos of babies killed and burned during the Hamas terror attack that killed hundreds in Jewish communities near Gaza.
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The images were posted on X (formerly Twitter) via the Israeli Prime Minister’s account.
“Here are some of the photos Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Warning: These are horrific photos of babies murdered and burned by the Hamas monsters. Hamas is inhumane. Hamas is ISIS,” we read in the message accompanying the pictures.
In one of the photos, the body of a baby, possibly less than 12 months old, can be seen lying in a bloody white body bag. His pajamas are covered in blood.
The other two pictures show the charred bodies of two babies. these were published unfiltered by Israel.
The Jerusalem Post also confirmed that babies were also beheaded at Kibbutz Kfar Aza.
An Israeli military spokesman also appeared to confirm reports that Hamas terrorists had beheaded babies.
Israel Defense Forces spokesman Jonathan Conricus said a forensic doctor who visited a kibbutz near the Gaza Strip after the massacre saw the children’s bodies and confirmed how they died.
“I admit it took us some time to really understand and verify this report and it was hard to believe that even Hamas could commit such a barbaric act,” he said in comments reported by the BBC reported.
“I think we can now say with relative certainty that Hamas did exactly that… there were mutilated bodies strewn everywhere.”
Immediately after the Hamas attacks, reports circulated that the terrorists had raped women and children and beheaded infants, but these were later denounced as disinformation.
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said the attackers committed various atrocities, including tying up boys and girls and shooting them in the head, burning people alive, raping women and beheading soldiers.
Israeli army spokesman Major Doron Spielman later told NBC News he could not confirm how many babies had been beheaded.
“What I can confirm is that there is ample witness testimony and evidence found on site that children were grotesquely murdered and their body parts removed,” Major Spielman added.
Rescue workers and witnesses described horrific scenes, including the slaughter of elderly people and the discovery of blood-soaked rooms filled with slaughtered civilians.