Hamas Attack: Shocking Assault on Kibbutz Gunmen Shot And Burned Families Alive Before Beheading Babies
The smell of decomposing bodies fills the air at Kfar Aza kibbutz, where Hamas terrorists carried out a brutal attack on Israeli soil, massacring families and beheading them, including 40 children.
This small kibbutz, popular among young parents, was one of the initial Israeli settlements targeted by the rampaging terrorists on a Saturday morning.
Here, Hamas gunmen, armed with assault rifles and grenades, mercilessly killed terrified families who pleaded for their lives before setting fire to their homes.
The terror began shortly after dawn, catching most of the 400 residents, who were either asleep or enjoying their breakfast with coffee, completely unprepared.
Israeli soldiers walk beside the bodies of Hamas militant killed in Kfar Aza kibbutz on Tuesday
The first wave of 70 terrorists stormed the quiet kibbutz on motorbikes, having torn through the border wire a mile away, while others paraglided over Israel's unsuspecting defenses from Gaza.
Upon arrival, the heavily armed militants launched an assault on the compound from four directions, beginning with the "baby quarter" on the west side, where young families resided.
A frantic kibbutz guard and a small group of residents with military experience patrolling the perimeter saw the swarm of black-clad figures racing toward them. They, like the Israeli military and government, were ill-equipped to repel the terrorists firing a hail of bullets at them. The small security team valiantly tried to shield their neighbors but succumbed to the assailants.
The ruthless Hamas gunmen swiftly moved through the kibbutz, starting by killing a 90-year-old grandmother who sat on her porch when the terrorists arrived. They dragged the terrified elderly woman into her living room and shot her twice in the head.
Families were awakened by the terrifying sound of gunfire and voices outside their homes. Terrified parents rushed to protect their sleeping children, moving them from their beds and cribs into safe rooms or closets.
Among these parents were Itay and Hadar Berichevsky, both 30, who heard the gunmen attempting to break down their front door. The terrified parents frantically placed their ten-month-old twins in a concealed shelter moments before the Hamas terrorists stormed into their home and fatally shot the couple.
The terrorists systematically proceeded from house to house, blowing open front doors with rocket-powered grenades and raining bullets upon men, women, and children residing within. Entire families were handcuffed before being shot point-blank, according to soldiers.
Harrowing images from the scene depicted a baby's car seat covered in blood, with a small bloodied dress lying beside it. The Hamas gunmen set fire to several kibbutz homes in a sinister attempt to force the families out, intending to gun them down once they reached their gardens.
A baby's seat and a child's dress are seen spattered in blood in the aftermath of the attack
"Many preferred to perish in the fires than be killed by the terrorists," explained Omar Barak, a 24-year-old Israeli army officer.
Some attempted to flee, but many were mercilessly gunned down, their lifeless bodies strewn on the grass in front of their homes.
One survivor recounted, "The terrorists entered every home, every place. They would set fire to their houses with them inside, so they would die. They shot children, babies, old people, anyone. No one was safe. The first victim was a 90-year-old woman sitting on her porch. She saw them coming, and she got shot."
The attack was so swift and coordinated that the coffee from their Saturday morning breakfast still sat on the table in one family's home, while blood and shattered cups covered their kitchen floor.
One of the few who managed to escape was filmmaker Shaylee Atary, whose husband, Yahav Winner, helped her and their one-month-old daughter flee their home as the gunmen entered the small building.
Shaylee sought refuge in a storeroom, shielding herself and her baby, Shaya, with sacks of soil. When she heard the gunmen approaching again, she ran across the lawn as the terrorists fired at her. She was eventually taken in by a family who allowed her to hide in their safe room for 27 hours until they were rescued. Tragically, Shaylee later learned that her husband had been killed by the terrorists.
"I really don't know where our state was," Shaylee lamented. "They abandoned us. They were on Twitter. That's where they were."
It took the Israeli army 12 hours to reach the kibbutz, as recounted by Officer Davidi Ben Zion, the deputy commander of the paratrooper team Unit 71.
However, the carnage did not cease there. The terrorists put up a fierce fight to retain control of the kibbutz, killing civilians and engaging in firefights with the soldiers.
Soldiers described the situation as chaotic, with terrorists everywhere as soon as they arrived at the kibbutz. "You cannot imagine how difficult the fighting was," one soldier stated.
It took Israeli soldiers three days to reclaim the kibbutz, ultimately eliminating the Hamas terrorists.
Soldiers conducted house-to-house searches, hoping to find survivors. Remarkably, the ten-month-old twin babies placed in a hidden shelter by Itay and Hadar Berdichevsky were rescued by Israeli soldiers and reunited with their grandmother.
What remains of the utter carnage that the Hamas terrorists unleashed on this small community are bullet-riddled bodies of parents and their children, along with the charred remnants of their homes.
Throughout the town, walls and torched cars bear bullet holes, tracing a path of violence that continues within bedrooms with mattresses stained with blood and safe rooms that could not withstand the attack.
An IDF soldier covers his face before removing the body of a civilian killed days earlier in an attack by Hamas terrorists on Tuesday
With an estimated 150 victims, soldiers and mortuary teams spent hours collecting their bodies. They wrapped the small bodies of young children slaughtered by the terrorists and placed them in oversized body bags.
Israeli soldiers comforted each other after witnessing such horrors, including the bodies of entire families slain in their beds.
"You see the babies, the mothers, the fathers in their bedrooms and how the terrorists killed. It's not a battlefield. It's a massacre," said Israeli Major General Itai Veruv, standing at the entrance of the kibbutz.
Veruv, who had served as a combat soldier and officer for 39 years, compared the scene to something out of his grandparents' era in Europe, recalling the pogroms and the Holocaust. He had arrived at Kfar Aza to join the fight on Saturday but, by Tuesday, had gathered the world's press to reveal the extent of the tragedy.
"The stench of bodies was heavy in the air as the soldiers showed journalists the kibbutz, popular among families. The small football nets where children would have played football were seen on a pocket of grass, but in the background, the bodies of families were laid on the ground."
Major David Ben Zion, a 37-year-old reservist called up to rescue survivors, recounted their grim findings. He said, "We saw dead babies, girls. We succeeded in saving some of them, but we found most dead in their houses. They came with just one mission – to kill more and more of our people."
Outside one of the small kibbutz houses, a resident's body was covered by a purple sheet, with a bare foot protruding. A pillow and other objects from the house lay scattered.
Elsewhere, the bodies of the gunmen lay face down on the ground. A destroyed gate at the kibbutz's perimeter revealed where the terrorists had entered.
Military spokesman Maj Doron Spielman compared the toll in Kfar Aza and nearby villages he visited to scenes he witnessed as a New
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