Hamas massacre of Israelis, 7 Oct 2023.
An unbelievable security failure.
An incredible
2,500 Hamas and other terrorists
get across the Gaza border into Israel.
They completely overwhelm any local army and police.
For up to two days they are in control of Jewish communities, raping and killing.
They slaughter at random Jewish men, women and children in the streets
and in their homes.
They take others as captives into Gaza.
An unbelievable disaster.
Israel's 9/11.
1,200
Israelis killed.
Many sadistically and slowly.
A death toll beyond belief.
250
Israelis taken as captives into Gaza.
7 Oct 2023 was the worst day in Israeli history, since 1948.
It was the most number of Jews killed in one day since the Holocaust.
John Podhoretz, 8 Oct 2023:
"As I write the death toll from a single morning's activities is well above 700, with thousands more injured. There is no difference here, even numerically, from the horrifyingly countless stories of the Nazi forces moving into a town in Poland, rounding up the Jews, making them dig a trench, and then murdering them with gunfire in the trench."
Irish father
Thomas Hand had his 8 year old daughter Emily Hand
abducted by Hamas from a sleepover at a friend's house.
At first it was thought Hamas killed her.
See
video of his grief.
Then the nightmare escalated, as it was discovered the body found was not her.
In fact,
she was abducted into Gaza.
Amazingly, she stayed alive.
She turned 9 in captivity.
She was released in an exchange after 1.5 months.
She was not raped.
"Save us please"
says a 6 year old to arriving Israeli police after her mother was executed in front of her.
At first she is terrified they are terrorists.
And here.
Amir Tibon's story.
Stuck in a room with his small children, as Hamas butchers slaughtered his neighbours,
he rang his father, a 62 year old former general.
His father drove to the Kibbutz and
joined active soldiers to fight and kill Hamas
to try to rescue his son and family.
He tells his children, to stop them crying, he tells them:
"Grandfather is coming."
And his father came and rescued them.
Unbelievable.
"If you tolerate this, your children will be next."
Brutal animation depicting the massacre.
From here.
Israel's Minister of Defense
reported
that Israeli children were handcuffed, tortured and then slaughtered, some burned alive.
Autopsy
shows an adult and child tied together with iron wire and burnt alive.
And more.
And here.
They tortured the victims.
Of the 280 bodies in Kfar Aza and Be'eri, 80 percent had been tortured.
They tied children together and burnt them in piles.
Rabbi Moshe Dikstein
describes some of the horrors he saw in the houses and in the fields.
A report
from the hell of the forensic lab trying to identify the bodies.
Burnt bodies hugging each other in death.
People tied up and burnt.
Babies without heads.
Report
from Israel's National Center of Forensic Medicine.
"victims' hands were bound behind their backs with metal wire before being burned alive.
...
Two spinal cords - one belonging to an adult, one to someone young - a parent and child bound together by metal wires in a final embrace before being set alight.
...
Many bodies, including those of babies, are without heads."
A Lesson on Human Suffering from a Kibbutz by John Spencer, 12 Jan 2024.
"they went house to house, methodically killing, mutilating, and kidnapping
...
I saw scene after scene of this evil sickness
- children's rooms riddled with bullets, blood splattered LEGOs. Entire families slaughtered
and their bodies burned clutching each other. The most awful were the safe rooms."
Children and babies
Family burnt:
"Two parents, father and mother, hands tied in the back and against them two small children, hands tied in the back
... each of them torched."
Volunteer Yossi Landau
explains what he saw.
They tortured a family in front of each other.
Mother and father and two children were tied up in front of each other.
They cut out the father's eye.
They cut off the mother's breast.
They cut off one child's fingers.
They cut off the other child's foot.
This seems to be the horror scene described here:
Children age 6 and 7 tied up and tortured to death
in front of their parents.
All four tied up in their living room
and all tortured and mutilated and shot in front of each other.
Children burnt:
"A pile of 20 handcuffed children, shot, that the terrorists put in one pile and set them on fire."
And here.
An 8 year old girl
has her arm cut off by Hamas.
She slowly bled to death, alone and afraid for hours.
A first responder arrived at the end, only to see her last breath as she died.
They cut a baby out of a pregnant woman.
"The unborn baby .. was stabbed with a knife. And the mother was shot in the head.
And you use your imagination, trying to figure out what came first."
Zaka volunteer recalls
discovering a pregnant woman dead.
Hamas ripped open her stomach,
pulled out the fetus and stabbed it.
The mother probably saw what they did to her baby
before they shot her dead.
Baby burnt in an oven.
JTA article, 31 Oct 2023.
Dead baby found in an oven:
"the heating element of the oven was on the body itself."
Some people questioned this, so
JPost on 8 Nov 2023 discusses the story.
Asher Moskowitz, United Hatzalah volunteer, says:
"what I saw with this body
- it was relatively complete, but hard like a rock, and on its stomach was the sign of a heating element,
like a half a circle or a big chain."
He asked a medical specialist.
"He said that based on the signs on the body, it looks like they put him inside the oven alive, and he said they found the baby dead inside the oven."
Eli Beer, United Hatzalah president, said it was possible that a mother hid the baby in the oven.
"It makes sense that a mother would put the baby in the oven to save it then Hamas burned down the house.
A lot of babies were burned by gasoline. So many babies died - why is this [case] seen as so terrible?"
The parents were murdered, so we do not know what happened.
Were they forced to watch their baby being cooked by Hamas before they were killed?
Was the mother raped while her baby was burning?
All of these are possible.
Sky News report
from the National Center of Forensic Medicine, 6 Nov 2023:
"There is a child beheaded.
...
But it's a large item of evidence that stops her in her tracks - and me.
She lifts a bag and shows me a baby's mattress. It's covered in blood.
'This baby was probably stabbed in his own bed'."
"A father and two sons (roughly 7 & 9) running for their lives in their underwear into what appears to be a bomb shelter with an open entrance. A Hamas terrorist throws a hand grenade into shelter, killing the father, and badly injuring the two sons who run back into the house.
The two sons are screaming for their dad, saying they are gonna die. A Hamas terrorist casually and calmly takes a bottle of water from the family's fridge and drinks it as the two boys weep."
"Hamas terrorists enter a house, where a small girl is seen hiding under the table. After some talking back and forth they shoot and kill her as she hides under the table. Hard to say how old she is but looks like 7-9 years old."
"A man in his underpants & his two children, also in underpants, run screaming.
Hamas enter, they throw a grenade & kill the father. They take the 2 kids - covered with their father's blood - into a room.
"Daddy's dead," screams one. "It's not a prank. He's really dead."
"I wish I was dead, I wish I was dead." screams the child."
"The joy, the gleeful laughter, the depraved happiness over killing Jews.
The exclamations of celebration over death and pain.
The callousness, inhuman pleasure and amusement over slaughtering innocent lives.
The shameless brutality.
These are monsters."
"I understand now why this video must be selectively shown. You can't watch it without be in some way traumatized. I will never forget the children. Photo after photo of dead children in their PJs. Mickey Mouse, Stitch (my daughter loves at the moment). Covered in blood. Dead."
He wrote an article:
"It is like Hamas released 2,000 Jeffrey Dahmers into Southern Israel. Cold, psychopathic, emotionless, serial killers that get joy in the suffering of others. Pure evil."
1,200
Israelis killed on the streets and in their homes.
See confirmation
that this photo is from Sderot.
More details:
It was a group of pensioners on an organised trip to the Dead Sea.
Nightmare: Israeli woman and her children taken as captives into Gaza, 7 Oct 2023.
This is Shiri Bibas and her children
from Nir Oz.
Images from here.
See identification here.
See earlier photo.
From here.
In late November, there were reports that they were all killed in Gaza.
Noya Dan, a 12 year old girl, a Harry Potter fan.
It was thought she was
kidnapped into unimaginable hell by Hamas.
J.K. Rowling made a plea for her and the other hostages.
How Noya would have been amazed that
J.K. Rowling was pleading for her.
But sadly all that time she was dead, killed by Hamas, and it took nearly 2 weeks to find and identify her body.
From here.
"Itai and Antar, loving parents. ...
While her husband fought to keep the terrorists out of the house, Antar hid her twin babies in a press in the shelter. Itai and Antar were murdered, but the babies were found by the Israeli soldiers after 14 hours."
See rescuer account.
They machine-gunned babies and toddlers in their cots and in their beds.
From here.
"The terrorists who infiltrated the settlement of Bari entered the babies' rooms, a baby that cried - was shot on the spot. They dragged the children with their parents into the living room there, shot the babies in front of their parents and then murdered the parents one by one."
Two small Israeli children tried to hide in this closet in their home.
They were found by Hamas and shot on the spot.
From here.
Another story
where children hid in a closet and lived (though their parents died).
An 8-year-old and a 6-year-old hide alone for 14 hours in a closet. No food, no water, no parents.
Their parents were killed by the terrorists.
The monsters kidnapped their 3 year old sister.
