Foreign media were allowed by the government into the town of Kfar Azza, through which Hamas fighters passed. The first sights are horrifying – over 40 corpses of children and babies, some with their heads cut off.
More than 200 Israelis were killed in the city.
Located between Netivot and Sderot about five kilometers east of Gaza, it falls under the jurisdiction of the Shaar HaNegev Regional Council. In 2021, it has a population of 765 inhabitants, BTA reported.
The bodies of Israeli residents and fighters from the Islamic movement Hamas lie in the streets of Kibbutz Kfar Azza in southern Israel amid burned houses, strewn furniture and torched cars, as Israeli soldiers go from house to house to collect the bodies, the Times reports. of Israel.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) took foreign journalists through Kfar Azza, which is one of the worst-hit areas hit by the weekend’s attack by Hamas militants.
“This is not a war, this is not a battlefield. This is a massacre, this is a terrorist attack,” said Major General Itay Veruv, commander of one of the IDF corps, describing what he saw during the search of homes in the area. He noted that a large number of kibbutz residents were killed in their homes.
In front of one of the houses lies the corpse of one of the residents of the kibbutz, covered with a sheet, and the bodies of a number of attackers are a little further on, face to the ground.
Only now – days after the attack, the Israeli soldiers can only now go around all the houses in the kibbutz, because before that there were battles with the armed fighters.
Soldiers continued to conduct security operations on the roads in the kibbutz while gunshots and explosions were heard in the distance.
Cars are completely burnt. This is only a small part of the destruction, and there is still no exact number of people who have been killed, as the bodies are still being collected and removed from the homes.
The stench of death—that’s what’s left of the once vibrant Kfar-Aza. More than 70 armed terrorists stormed the kibbutz, their bodies still lying on the ground for the whole world to see the brutality they committed.
Being on the border, Kfar-Azza is still a “target”, with IDF soldiers on the lookout for potential remaining terrorists. Missiles continue to fly overhead. You can also hear the booming of mortars, for which there are no warning sirens.
It is still a challenge for the soldiers to check every house because of the numerous traps. The press has even been advised to stay away from some areas that have not yet been screened for explosives. The journalists are protected by at least a company of Israeli soldiers in full combat gear who continue to clear the homes.
An Israeli military spokesman said the death toll from the Hamas attacks had risen to 900, mostly civilians, shot in their homes or on the street, making the death toll higher than any previous such Islamist attack, with except for the September 11, 2001, attack in New York.
Dozens of Israelis have been taken to Gaza as hostages. The Israeli embassy in the US reported over 1,000 Israelis killed.
Meanwhile, it was reported that the son of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – Avner Netanyahu, has been mobilized and is going to the front.
2023-10-10 16:22:00
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