Kfar Aza, the kibbutz where Hamas massacred more than a hundred Israeli civilians, including babies

Next to three children’s bicycles are six body bags. And in the background, the corpses of the attackers Palestinians. It is one of the scenes left behind by the massacre of more than a hundred civilians Israelis in the hands of Hamas in the kibbutz of Kfar Aza.

The collective farm was attacked on Saturday by militants from the Palestinian movement, infiltrated since the Gaza stripjust two kilometers away.

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The attackersThey set fire to the houses to force the occupants out.”And then machine-gun them, he says Omer Baraka 24-year-old Israeli officer.

“But many preferred to die by burning or being poisoned by smoke rather than at the hands of terrorists.“, he states. “We found many bodies inside the houses”.

The officer, who fought with his companions for two days to free Kfar AzaHe said he felt “scared”With what he found in the kibbutz.

“I’ve never seen anything worse. I broke down when I saw the bodies of two murdered children”.

“When we removed the bodies of civilians, of children, I thought of General Eisenhower, when he saw the extermination camps in Europe“, says the retired general to the press Itai Veruv.

In Kfar Aza, a cooperative with neatly cut grass between the houses, the stench of death is omnipresent. The site is littered with the remains of attackers, recognizable by their black bulletproof vests, some swollen due to putrefaction.

The last bodies of the residents, at the same time, were being removed this Tuesday.

At another point, the remains of an attacker, cut in two, lie next to some anti-aircraft shelters where the inhabitants took refuge. Some show signs of having suffered explosions at the height of the windows.

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“The terrorists threw grenades inside. no one survived”Itai Veruv sighs.

Among the remains, a pulverized scooter, a small pink helmet left on a table, a partially broken washing machine, a burned truck. The violence is shocking in a place inhabited by civilians.

According to General Veruv, “70 armed and trained terrorists“They attacked Kfar Aza on Saturday at around half past six in the morning with the intention of causing”a massacre”.

Due to the short distance from Gaza, the attackers quickly reached the kibbutz, which Israeli forces were only able to fully liberate on Tuesday morning.

Several Israeli soldiers consulted by AFP speak of more than 100 civilian deaths, and up to 150 in this agricultural cooperative.

“We were not prepared”

“Even now I can’t believe my eyes. These are usually images of Ukraine or the things he does Islamic state”, the jihadist group that spread terror in Syria It is Iraq and in attacks in Europe, notes an Israeli reservist.

A businessman from Tel Avivwho did not want to reveal his name, came on Saturday to liberate Kfar Aza and other nearby towns.

“I wanted peace. It’s the only solution, but peace cannot be made with Hamas“, he states.

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On Tuesday, as the army gradually withdrew from the site, birds chirping could be heard again, interspersed with Israeli howitzer fire towards the Link and the noise of Palestinian rockets intercepted by the defensive system iron dome.

A few kilometers from the cooperative, a heavy military device advances towards the Gaza Strip, for a fight that the soldiers are eager to fight. The Israeli army has so far bombed hundreds of targets in this Palestinian territory, leaving more than 750 people dead, according to local authorities.

Hamas “They attacked civilian homes. We weren’t prepared”, says General Veruv. “They will pay for this”.

Source: Elcomercio

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