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ISRAEL – The events occurred on the first day of the major Hamas attack on Israeli territory, Saturday, which killed more than 900 people on the Israeli side. But only since Tuesday, October 10, have certain details become clearer to the international public Press.
As strikes, fighting and abuses continue for a fourth day, numerous bodies have been found at the Beeri kibbutz where a massacre took place.
Beeri residents interviewed by AFP estimated that dozens of the 1,200 residents of the kibbutz, located four kilometers as the crow flies from the Gaza border, were killed or taken hostage. The newspaper The Times of Israel speaks of around a hundred deaths.
“There were a lot of deaths, more than 100,” said NGO Zaka spokesman Moti Bukjin. Hamas men “shot everyone, they murdered children, babies, old people, everyone in cold blood,” he added.
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On Saturday, a resident of the collectivist village of Inbal Reich Alon was locked in a shelter for about fifteen hours while Hamas gunmen killed and kidnapped dozens of Israelis near her home.
She was able to escape and is now a refugee, like around 150 other kibbutz residents in a hotel on the shores of the Dead Sea.
This 58-year-old woman, met by AFP journalists at this makeshift reception center on Monday, remembers hearing explosions on Saturday morning.
“We had no idea what was going on”
Inbal Reich Alon initially thought it was “a storm.” But she quickly realized that her small, close-knit community was under attack. She and her family fled to a safe room in their home, originally intended to protect residents from rocket fire.
The building was set on fire by the attackers. “We had no idea what was going on,” she describes, saying that she heard screams in Arabic. For hours, her husband and children “did not let go” of the handle of the shelter door, which could not be locked, as is common in such buildings.
GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP
Inbal Reich Alon, a resident of Kibbutz Beeri near the Gaza border, speaks here at a hotel in the Dead Sea region after her evacuation, Israel, October 9, 2023.
On Monday morning, army spokesman Daniel Hagari told Israeli media that “around 70 terrorists had infiltrated Kibbutz Beeri” and that “most of them were killed after an exchange of fire.”
“What is currently happening in Israel is the discovery of the atrocity, the massacres committed by the Islamist terrorists of Hamas for two days, including the bloodbath in the kibbutz of Beeri,” denounced Colonel Olivier Rafowicz, a spokesman, at the LCI microphone for the Israeli army. “Hundreds of men, women and children were massacred, torn to pieces and beheaded by men mad with hate. “This was repeated in dozens of places in Israel,” he added.
From now on, the residents of Beeri support a war against Gaza to liberate it from Hamas.
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