Originally published October 10, 2023 9:43 am PDT
In a horrifying incident in Kfar Aza, an Israeli community of approximately 700 residents, reports have emerged of a brutal attack leading to the death of nearly 200 people amid the conflict between Israel and Hamas that commenced over the weekend.
The reports reveal the extent of the devastation that soldiers and rescue teams are grappling with.
The most heart-wrenching discovery pertains to around 40 infants who were cruelly killed.
Soldiers on the ground have recounted finding infants who met their tragic end in particularly violent ways.
One chilling account shared that some babies were discovered decapitated.
In addition to the horrific loss of life, there’s extensive physical destruction in the area.
Vehicles parked in the vicinity have been reduced to ashes.
As the report indicates, this forms only a part of the overall destruction.
“The community’s cars, parked outside, were completely torched,” stated one report.
Efforts to retrieve the victims and assess the full extent of the fatalities are ongoing.
It’s believed that more than 70 Hamas militants were responsible for this onslaught on the community, resulting in a pervasive “smell of death” that now haunts the area.
Major General Itai Veruv of the IDF spoke with deep emotion about the grim situation.
“It’s not a war, it’s not a battlefield, it’s a massacre,” Veruv said. “You see the babies, their mothers, and their fathers, in their bedrooms, and in their protected rooms, and how the terrorists killed them—it’s not a war.”
“It’s something that I never saw in my life,” he continued. “We used to imagine our grandmothers and grandfathers during the pogroms in Europe. It’s not something that we have seen in recent history.”
Thousands have been killed or injured after Hamas launched a barbaric “surprise attack” on Israel on October 7.
Editor’s Note (Wed Oct 11, 2023 12:33 pm PDT): On Wednesday, Israeli journalist and photographer for +972 Magazine Oren Ziv called into question reports that dozens of babies had been murdered by Hamas in Kfar Aza, as reported by Information Liberation.
“I’m getting a lot of question about the reports of ‘Hamas beheaded babies’ that were published after the media tour in the village,” he wrote in an X, now Twitter, post. “During the tour we didn’t see any evidence of this, and the army spokesperson or commanders also didn’t mention any such incidents.”
“During the tour, journalists were allowed to speak to the hundreds of soldiers on site, without the supervision of the army’s spokesperson team. I24 reporter said she heard it ‘from soldiers,'” Ziv went on to say. “Soldiers I spoke with in Kfar Aza yesterday didn’t mention ‘beheaded babies.’ The army’s spokesperson stated: ‘We can not confirm at this point… we are aware of the heinous acts Hamas is capable of.'”
