Harrowing footage has emerged of the moment murderous Hamas militants shot dead an Israeli family’s dog before storming their home, looting their fridge and setting their house on fire amid a campaign of civilian massacres.
The unfortunate attack was just one of dozens that occurred in the kibbutz of Be’eri, a tiny farming community of 1,000 people where Israeli security forces and rescue workers later found 108 bodies after a long hostage standoff with gunmen.
The clip, captured by the GoPro camera on a Hamas fighter’s helmet, showed the dog leaping out of the house towards the attackers and being immediately mowed down with multiple bullets.
Hamas terrorists immediately entered a home and ransacked the family’s belongings, drinking orange juice from their refrigerator and diving into the contents.
A militant then pulled a lighter from his pocket and carried it to the wall, igniting sparks from houseplants and hanging ornaments that quickly burst into flames before the heavily armed men left the room.
Another harrowing scene from the same kibbutz showed a second group of Hamas fighters gaining entry into the fenced compound by slaughtering civilians at close range while they sat in a car.
The unfortunate attack was just one of dozens that occurred in the kibbutz of Be’eri, a tiny farming community where Israeli security forces and rescue workers later found 108 bodies
One militant pulled a lighter from his pocket and carried it to the wall, igniting sparks from houseplants and hanging ornaments that quickly burst into flames before leaving the room
The dog jumped out of the house towards the attackers and was immediately mowed down with several bullets
CCTV camera footage taken at 6:05 a.m. Saturday morning showed a group of armed Hamas fighters in combat fatigues lying in wait
Another harrowing scene from the same kibbutz showed a second group of Hamas fighters gaining entry into the fenced compound by slaughtering civilians at close range while they sat in a car
As soon as the civilians stopped at the gate and activated the electronic barrier, the gunmen jumped out of cover, pointed their rifles at the car windows from just a few meters away and fired at the occupants
After the massacre, the bodies of dozens of Israeli civilians are loaded onto a truck
Body bags after Israeli Hamas attack
Footage of the brutal attack was captured by cameras positioned at various locations overlooking the entrance to the kibbutz, which is protected by a yellow metal gate.
Footage from CCTV cameras, time-stamped at 5:55 a.m. Saturday, shows two Hamas fighters armed with AK-47s wearing camouflaged military clothing, body armor and combat boots approaching the gate blocking a two-lane road.
First, the two fighters are seen trying to find a way through the gate, with one testing whether he can fit through the small gap below.
He soon changes his mind and instead breaks into a small guardhouse located on one side of the kibbutz entrance and forces his way in with his rifle.
Seconds after climbing through a window, the other fighter spots the approaching car. He hides behind a tree while the first soldier hides in the guardhouse and sets an ambush for the approaching vehicle.
At 5:57 a.m., barely two minutes after the two militants were first seen inspecting the entrance to the kibbutz, the driver and passenger are seen pulling up to the gate.
Neither of them seems to notice that the two armed men are lying in wait, and the electronically controlled gate begins to open.
When the driver briefly leans out of the window, apparently to speak to whoever is in the guardhouse, the armed militant can be seen running out from behind the tree.
As soon as he is just a few meters away from the car, he mercilessly opens fire at close range through the passenger window and sprays the two Israelis with several shots.
From the other side, the Hamas fighter in the guardhouse also opened fire and hit the driver several times, who was hit by the bullets.
As the militants run through the now-open gate, the footage shows the car rolling gently further into the kibbutz, which has now been breached.
The victims in the car remain motionless and covered in blood. Both are believed to have been killed in the attack, likely one of the first casualties on Saturday as more than 1,000 Hamas gunmen poured across the border from the Gaza Strip into Israel, where they indiscriminately shot civilians and took others hostage.
The Times of Israel reported that Hamas was in control of Be’eri for 17 hours.
“They walked around Be’eri as if they owned the place,” Haim Jelin, a Be’eri attack survivor and former local politician, told Army Radio on Sunday.
“They shot indiscriminately, kidnapped whoever they could, burned down people’s houses so that they had to escape through the window where the terrorists were waiting,” Mr Jelin added. He described the attack on the village as a “massacre.”
More footage has emerged of civilians with their hands apparently tied behind their backs and being led down a residential street by armed men.
A second video then shows at least four bodies lying on the ground in the same location, with hair and clothing consistent with those previously seen alive.
They are among 900 Israelis killed in brutal Hamas attacks, which prompted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to declare war on the Palestinian militant group and launch a campaign of devastating airstrikes on Gaza.
Israeli security forces and rescue workers later found 108 bodies – around 10 percent of Be’eri’s population – after a long hostage situation involving gunmen
A Hamas militant takes a civilian hostage after shooting many others in cold blood
More than 1,000 armed Hamas fighters poured across the Gaza border into Israel on Saturday and began indiscriminately firing on civilians and taking others hostage
A fireball erupts during an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on October 9, 2023
Palestinians watch as a fire burns in the rubble of a damaged residential building following Israeli attacks in Gaza City on October 10, 2023
Netanyahu, who first came to power in Israel in 1996 and served three terms, compared Hamas to the Islamic State group and said Israel planned to use “unprecedented violence” that would “reverberate for generations.”
“We have only begun to attack Hamas,” Netanyahu, 73, said in a nationally televised address last night. “What we do to our enemies in the days to come will affect them for generations.”
“Hamas terrorists tied up, burned and executed children.” They are savages. “Hamas is ISIS,” Netanyahu concluded.
Thousands of Hamas targets were destroyed by brutal airstrikes, Israeli defense officials claimed, but harrowing clips on social media showed the rockets and bombs also destroying Palestinian apartment blocks and killing more than 770 civilians.
Israel also ordered a “full siege” of the Gaza Strip, cutting off electricity, fuel and food to the 2.3 million Palestinians already living in abject poverty.
The four-day war has already claimed at least 1,600 lives, as Israel saw gun battles in the streets of its own cities for the first time in decades and neighborhoods in Gaza reduced to rubble.
In response to the brutal airstrikes on Gaza, Hamas announced last night that it would begin executing Israeli civilian prisoners.
“Any attack on our people without warning will be met with the execution of one of the civilian hostages,” Hamas’ armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, said in a statement.
Hamas militants abducted up to 150 people, including women and children, from Israeli territory and dragged them back to Gaza during their ruthless massacre.
“We have decided to put an end to this and declare from now on that any attack on our people in their homes without prior warning will unfortunately result in the execution of one of the civilians we are holding hostage,” Abu Obaida said. Al-Qassam Brigades spokesperson, added later in a recording released to Al Jazeera.
The IDF is now under enormous pressure to capture the hostages as quickly as possible.
This aerial photo shows heavily damaged buildings after Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City on October 10, 2023
Hamas terrorists have taken up to 150 people hostage
Alexander Grinberg of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security said Israeli “attacks will primarily hit Hamas command centers and troops, with fire coming from everywhere.”
“At the same time, the army will prepare to enter Gaza,” he said.
Such urban battles force fighters to engage in hand-to-hand combat, reducing visibility, increasing the risk of traps, blurring the lines between civilians and soldiers and rendering armored vehicles nearly useless.
“Everyone knows it will be long and difficult and involve a lot of casualties,” Grinberg said, although technologies such as robots could benefit attacking forces.
Former British army officer Andrew Galer, who works as an analyst at private intelligence agency Janes, said the IDF’s fight in Gaza would be tough because urban fighting was “a 360-degree battlefield as the threats can be all around you.” . ‘
Going from house to house to secure potentially booby-trapped buildings requires bringing in bomb disposal experts with cumbersome equipment such as ladders, ropes and explosives – “possibly while shooting” and in the dark, he added.
And there are “inherent risks” of friendly fire given “the difficulties of situational awareness,” Galer said.
As Israel continued to build up troops around the Gaza Strip, Iran’s Supreme Leader said, “We kiss the hands of those who planned the attack,” and feared that the Islamic Republic was supplying Hamas terrorists with weapons and training for the surprise attack.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei hailed what he called Israel’s “irreparable” military and intelligence defeat following Saturday’s attack.
“We kiss the hands of those who planned the attack on the Zionist regime,” Khamenei said in inflammatory remarks during his first televised address since the raid.
Khamenei, wearing a Palestinian scarf and speaking from a military academy, added: “This destructive earthquake (Hamas attack) has destroyed some critical structures (in Israel) that cannot be easily repaired.”
“The Zionist regime’s own actions are responsible for this catastrophe,” he said, but stressed that Iran, a key long-time ally of Hamas, was not involved in the attack on Israel.
Israel has long accused Iran’s clerical rulers of fomenting violence by supplying arms to Hamas, which many countries classify as a terrorist organization.
And Western officials said last night that Tehran had provided Hamas militants with military training and logistical assistance, as well as tens of millions of dollars in weapons, ahead of the surprise invasion.
The officials said Hamas had been planning the attack on Israel for at least a year, the Washington Post reports.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (pictured today at a military base) hailed what he called Israel’s “irreparable” military and intelligence defeat after gunmen rampaged through cities and slaughtered families and young festival-goers
They said that while they had no evidence that Tehran authorized or directly coordinated the attack, the raid reflected Iran’s years-long push to surround Israel with paramilitary fighters armed with sophisticated weapons.
“When you train people to use weapons, you expect them to use them at some point,” said a Western intelligence official.
Support for the Palestinian cause has been a pillar of the Islamic Republic since the 1979 revolution and one way the Shiite-dominated country has established itself as the leader of the Muslim world.
The top US general warned Iran on Monday against interfering in the crisis, saying he did not want the conflict to worsen.
TIMELINE OF THE ISRAEL-PALESTINE CONFLICT
The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas launched its biggest attack on Israel in years early Saturday, firing a barrage of rockets from Gaza and sending fighters across the border.
Israel said it was on a war footing and began its own attacks against Hamas targets in Gaza. Israeli media reported shootings between groups of Palestinian fighters and security forces in southern Israel.
The following timeline, beginning with Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza in 2005, describes the largest outbreaks of conflict between Israel and Palestinian groups in the crowded coastal enclave, home to 2.3 million people.
August 2005 – Israeli forces unilaterally withdraw from Gaza, abandoning settlements and leaving the enclave under control of the Palestinian Authority, 38 years after it conquered Egypt in the Middle East war.
A large group of police officers enter the settlement of Neve Dekalim in the southern Gaza Strip on August 17, 2005, to begin the forced evacuation of the settlement’s residents
January 25, 2006 – The Islamist group Hamas wins a majority of seats in a Palestinian parliamentary election. Israel and the US cut off aid to the Palestinians because Hamas refuses to renounce violence and recognize Israel.
June 25, 2006 – Hamas militants capture Israeli army conscript Gilad Shalit in a cross-border attack from the Gaza Strip, prompting Israeli airstrikes and incursions. More than five years later, Shalit is finally released through a prisoner exchange.
June 14, 2007 – Hamas takes over Gaza in a brief civil war, ousting Fatah forces loyal to West Bank-based Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
December 27, 2008 – Israel launches a 22-day military offensive in Gaza after Palestinians fire rockets at the southern Israeli town of Sderot. About 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis are reportedly killed before a ceasefire is agreed.
November 14, 2012 – Israel kills Hamas military chief of staff Ahmad Jabari. Eight days of Palestinian rocket fire and Israeli airstrikes follow.
July-August 2014 – Hamas’ abduction and killing of three Israeli teenagers leads to a seven-week war in which more than 2,100 Palestinians in Gaza and 73 Israelis, including 67 military personnel, were reportedly killed.
Smoke rises from the Tuffah neighborhood after Israeli air strikes in eastern Gaza City, July 29, 2014, during a seven-week war that killed more than 2,100 Palestinians
March 2018 – Palestinian protests begin on Gaza’s fenced border with Israel. Israeli troops open fire to hold back the demonstrators. More than 170 Palestinians were reportedly killed in the months-long protests, which also led to fighting between Hamas and Israeli forces.
May 2021 – After weeks of tension during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, hundreds of Palestinians are injured in clashes with Israeli security forces at the Al-Aqsa compound in Jerusalem, Islam’s third holiest site.
After Hamas called on Israel to withdraw security forces from the site, it fired rockets from Gaza into Israel. Israel retaliates with air strikes on Gaza. The fighting lasted 11 days (and became known as the 11-Day War) and killed at least 250 people in Gaza and 13 in Israel.
August 2022 – At least 44 people, including 15 children, are killed in three days of violence that begins when Israeli airstrikes hit a senior Islamic Jihad commander.
Israel says the strikes were a preemptive operation against an impending attack by the Iran-backed militant movement, targeting commanders and weapons depots. In response, Islamic Jihad fired more than 1,000 rockets into Israel. Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system prevents serious damage or casualties.
The building housing the offices of The Associated Press and other media outlets in Gaza City collapses after being hit by an Israeli airstrike on Saturday, May 15, 2021
January 2023 – Islamic Jihad in Gaza fires two rockets into Israel after Israeli troops raided a refugee camp, killing seven Palestinian gunmen and two civilians. The rockets caused alarm in Israeli communities near the border but caused no casualties. Israel responds with air strikes on Gaza.
Oct. 2023 – Hamas launches its biggest attack on Israel in years from the Gaza Strip, with a surprise attack combining gunmen crossing the border with heavy rocket fire. Islamic Jihad says its fighters joined the attack.
The Israeli military said it was on a war footing, adding it had carried out attacks on Hamas in Gaza and called up reservists.
(Source: Portal)