Sderot.— Next to three children’s bicycles lie six body bags. And in the background, the bodies of the Palestinian attackers. It is one of the scenes of horror left by the massacre of more than 100 Israeli civilians at the hands of Hamas in the Kfar Aza kibbutz, where the Israeli army found the bodies of 40 massacred babies, along with their parents.
The army summoned the media to witness what happened in Kfar Aza, on the border with Gaza. Hamas broke in on Saturday, but the army was able to repel the Islamists here and in other collective farms such as Beeri, Nirim or Alumim, only until Monday. The journalists, protected with helmets and bulletproof vests, and accompanied by Israeli soldiers, toured Kfar Aza, which was devastated and where the bodies of Hamas members could still be seen outside houses destroyed by fire.
“This is not a war,” General Itai Veruv, head of the Depth Command of the Israeli Defense Forces, told the press. “It is not a battlefield. You see the babies, the mothers, the fathers in their bedrooms, in their protection rooms, and how the terrorists kill them. “It is not a war… it is a massacre.”
“It’s something I’ve never seen in my entire life. “It’s something I used to imagine from my grandmother and grandfather in Europe and other places,” he told the media, who described the stench that was perceived in the place.
An i24 News reporter, Nicole Zedek, present at the scene, said that one of the commanders told her that they had found the bodies of about 40 babies. “About 40 babies were taken out on stretchers (…) Overturned cribs, abandoned strollers, doors wide open,” the journalist said.
The attackers “set fire to the houses to force their occupants to leave” and then machine gun them, says Omer Barak, a 24-year-old Israeli officer.
In another case, Deborah Mintz told British television Sky News that extremists tried to break into a concrete-reinforced shelter where she had taken refuge with her daughter, son-in-law and 10-day-old baby.
Although it had steel doors to protect against rocket attacks, it was not equipped with locks, leading to a battle that lasted hours. “My daughter and her husband took turns holding the handle upright,” she said. “When Hamas saw that my daughter and her husband were stronger than them, they set fire to the house and tried to smoke us out.”
Mintz described how smoke began to enter the room during the struggle, leaving them without fresh air or electricity. When they sensed that the terrorists were not near their property, they risked opening a steel window to allow them to breathe.
The family, who live in the town of Modi’in, described their ordeal as a “terrifying experience” and when siren alerts initially sounded early on Saturday morning, they assumed one or two rockets would be fired over their heads. “One of the hardest things was hearing my dog burn to death, screaming, a sound that will never leave me,” Mintz said.
He was “the best person I know.” With those words, the young Israeli Mor Bayder describes her grandmother, murdered by the Islamist group Hamas. Bayder found out about the death the hard way: from a video the killers posted.
Bayder told Israeli media that her grandmother, whose name was withheld, lived in Nir Oz, a kibbutz that she helped found and where she was happy, riding her bicycle, helping the rest of the kibbutz’s inhabitants wash and fold their clothes. The kibbutz is located next to the place where young people participated in an electronic music festival where Hamas arrived on Saturday and killed at least 260 people, while kidnapping dozens.
They also broke into Nir Oz. Not only did they murder Bayder’s grandmother, but they took her phone, took photos and recorded a video and uploaded it to the victim’s Facebook page. Bayder’s aunt was the first to see the post. She immediately contacted the young woman’s mother, asking them to open her grandmother’s Facebook. “My grandmother was on the floor of her house, she had been murdered on video. The floor was covered in blood,” the young woman described through tears. “A terrorist came home to my grandmother, killed her, took her phone, filmed her horror and posted it on her wall. This is how we found out,” she posted on Facebook.
At 11:48 p.m. this Tuesday, October 10, the first humanitarian flight 3528 of the Mexican Air Force left Tel Aviv with 135 nationals returning to Mexico, given the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
The first Mexicans who left Ben Gurion Airport told of their “journey” to reach the flight and expressed their trust in the Mexican government. Mexican Miriam Bolaños thanked the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador “for making this miracle possible today.”
In addition to 135 passengers, there are 20 crew members. A second flight will bring more than 100 nationals in the next few hours. There are more than a thousand Mexicans seeking to leave Israel, according to President López Obrador’s count, so it is expected that there will be more trips. Other nationals opt for commercial flights.
Meanwhile, concern is growing for missing Mexicans who, it is feared, are in the hands of Hamas: Israel Orión Hernández and Ilana Gritzewsky Camhi. Their relatives live between anguish and hope, and hope that they will be released. “Orion was just a tourist who happened to be in the wrong place. It has nothing to do with the conflict,” said Isabel, who preferred not to give her real name, when talking about the rave where the Mexican disappeared. Therefore, she hopes that the Mexican government will talk to Israel to try to locate the young man.
“This is a nightmare, I feel like my life is falling into pieces,” Jaim Gritzewsky, Ilana’s brother, said on his social networks, confirming that she was kidnapped with her husband and her dog from the kibbutz where she lived.
López Obrador defended the government’s pacifist stance, in the face of criticism from the Israeli Embassy.
Saint Joseph. – Women and men with Palestinian, Israeli, Lebanese, Egyptian, Saudi, Syrian, Iranian, Turkish, Moroccan, Libyan, Tunisian, Algerian, Jordanian, Iraqi, Kuwaiti, Qatari, Yemeni or Emirati roots share in peace in the streets of Latin America and the Caribbean and compete for the most diverse commercial, industrial, financial, tourist, cultural and social activities.
Of both sexes, they are jewelers, bankers, tailors, shoemakers, restaurateurs, clothing sellers, textile makers, furniture makers, artisans and from multiple lines of business: it is the daily hemispheric truth.
Faced with the new war that broke out last Saturday between Israel and Hamas, a Palestinian paramilitary force accused of being terrorist and that declares itself nationalist and Islamist, the reality emerged unmistakable for the Brazilian researcher Karime Cheaito, master in Strategic Studies at the (state) Federal University Fluminense, social scientist at the Paulista State University, both in Brazil, and an expert on armed groups in the Middle East.
“The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean have an important Arab community, which supports Palestine, and an also important community of Zionist Jews, who support Israel. However, the positioning of the populations does not necessarily correspond to the positioning of the governments,” Cheaito explained to EL UNIVERSAL.
By identifying a regional “symbolic positioning” on the war in Palestine and Israel, he suggested that “perhaps” Brazil, which serves as president of the United Nations (UN) Security Council, “can bear a greater weight (because) He is involved in the discussions.”
“The Palestinian question was present, to different degrees, within Latin American leftist movements,” he recalled.
“The problem” with Hamas “is more complex” and “historical”, because “it does not have the consensual support of the Palestinians and in Gaza, specifically, but today it represents the main resistance to Israel, in addition to the assistance it provides to the Palestinians in Gaza,” he said.
The war once again exposed the divisions in Latin America and the Caribbean regarding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, with crossed positions: Israel resorted to terrorism and Hamas defended itself or Hamas launched terrorist attacks and Israel protected itself.
Last Saturday on his “Palestinian children murdered by Israel’s illegal occupation of their territory.”
Petro avoided drawing a difference between the Palestinians and Hamas or the Islamic Resistance Movement created in 1987 to create an Islamic state in the region of Palestine that, with Jerusalem as its capital, would include the current territories of Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and the elimination of the Israeli state, created in 1948.
“No democrat in the world can accept that Gaza be turned into a concentration camp. Concentration camps are prohibited by international law and those who develop them become criminals against humanity,” Petro argued the day before yesterday in X. Petro was severely questioned for supporting the Palestinian cause and without repudiating Hamas for the terror, murders and the taking of civilian hostages in its current war offensive.
The (non-state) Confederation of Jewish Communities of Colombia accused on Sunday that Petro’s “recurrent statements” seemed to justify “Hamas, its war crimes and crimes against humanity” and rejected the president’s “obstinacy” in refusing to condemn openly and without subterfuge the savage aggression” of that organization against Israel.
Petro compared Gaza to the concentration camp that the Nazis operated in Auschwitz, Poland, for the extermination of mostly Jews in World War II (1939-1945).
Cuba, which broke diplomatic ties with Israel in 1973, asserted on Sunday that “the daily Israeli usurpation of the Palestinian territories triggered an armed reaction that now serves the Zionists to try to erase Palestine from the map.”
After asking to recognize both states, the Granma newspaper, the official organ of the ruling Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), published that “the Palestinian reaction to international indifference and the crimes that Israel commits every day against its population, should constitute a warning to “That, once and for all, this genocide stops.”
The leftist former Bolivian president Evo Morales (2006-2019) ratified his support for Hamas on Saturday and announced that “we condemn the imperialist and colonial actions of the Israeli Zionist government.”
Without referring to the terrorist acts by Hamas that unleashed the current war, he reaffirmed his distance from his former co-religionist, the leftist president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, and criticized his country’s foreign ministry for a statement it issued about the events in Gaza in the who avoided condemning Israel.
At the other ideological extreme, the president of El Salvador, the right-wing Nayib Bukele, argued on Sunday in X that “as a Salvadoran of Palestinian descent, I am sure that the best thing that could happen to the Palestinian people is for Hamas to disappear completely.” .
“Those wild beasts do not represent the Palestinians. “Anyone who supports the Palestinian cause would make a big mistake by siding with those criminals,” Bukele warned, in a claim without citing Petro with which he exacerbated his frequent political friction with the Colombian ruler.
Costa Rica condemned on Saturday “in the strongest possible way the atrocious and deplorable terrorist attacks” by Hamas against Israel. Costa Rica established itself as an old and unconditional partner of Tel Aviv and, like the other Latin American and Caribbean nations, is home to numerous Jewish, Arab and other communities that coexist peacefully in its streets in daily economic competition.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro demanded on Monday “that immediate peace negotiations be initiated to restore the historic rights to independence, to territory, to peace of the Palestinian people. “I advocate for the people of Palestine, I advocate for peace,” he stated, describing Jesus Christ as the “first anti-imperialist.”
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