The clip, captured by a Hamas attacker using a GoPro camera, showed the moment the terrorists stormed what appeared to be an IDF border post amid their ruthless surprise assault on Saturday, October 7. Hamas gunmen are seen streaming into a darkened room having just tossed a grenade into the enclosed space. Female soldiers are heard wailing in pain and fear as the attackers surround them, brandishing Kalashnikov assault rifles. For a moment it looked as though the gunmen had reconsidered their actions, approaching the desk behind which the women were cowering and pulling away an office chair as they spoke in relatively calm tones. But it quickly became apparent that the attackers were simply making way for a clean execution. In the dying moments of the video, one shooter raises his rifle and fires several more shots at the bloodied women from mere feet away in what South First Responders – Israeli rescue teams that were first to arrive on the scene following Hamas’ attacks – said was ‘clear evidence of war crimes’. More than 1,400 Israelis have been killed in Hamas attacks since October 7, Israeli officials claim, adding on Monday that at least 199 hostages were taken back in Gaza, higher than previous estimates. Now, Israel’s military is responding in kind, conducting a relentless bombing campaign of targets throughout the Gaza Strip which has resulted in the deaths of 2,750 Palestinians as of Monday morning, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
Published October 16, 2023
Shocking moment wounded female Israeli soldiers are shot dead by Hamas gunmen as they cower under a table after being injured by a grenade
Sickening footage has emerged of the moment Hamas gunmen entered an Israeli compound, injuring several female soldiers with grenades before brutally executing them at near point-blank range as they cowered behind a desk.
The clip, captured by a Hamas attacker using a GoPro camera, showed the moment the terrorists stormed what appeared to be an IDF border post amid their ruthless surprise assault on Saturday, October 7.
Hamas gunmen are seen streaming into a darkened room having just tossed a grenade into the enclosed space.
Female soldiers are heard wailing in pain and fear as the attackers surround them, brandishing Kalashnikov assault rifles.
For a moment it looked as though the gunmen had reconsidered their actions, approaching the desk behind which the women were cowering and pulling away an office chair as they spoke in relatively calm tones.
But it quickly became apparent that the attackers were simply making way for a clean execution.
In the dying moments of the video, one shooter raises his rifle and fires several more shots at the bloodied women from mere feet away in what South First Responders – Israeli rescue teams that were first to arrive on the scene following Hamas’ attacks – said was ‘clear evidence of war crimes’.
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RELATED: Mapping how the deadly Hamas attack on Israel unfolded
Published October 16, 2023
Israel is at war after Hamas militants broke through the border from Gaza to inflict the deadliest attack the country has suffered in half a century.
The surprise and highly sophisticated incursion, a major failure of much-vaunted Israeli intelligence, has claimed the lives of more than 700 civilians and soldiers living close to the Gaza border, with the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) still seeking to root out militants embedded in Israeli settlements two days later.
In retaliation, Israel has launched relentless air strikes on Gaza and its tightly-packed civilian population – among whom Israel says Hamas militants are hiding – and has declared a “complete siege” of the enclave by cutting off supplies of electricity, food and fuel.
The unprecedented attack has raised fears of the conflict spilling over, with all eyes on Hamas’s allies in Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and their backers in Iran, while the United States is sending military “assistance” to Israel.
The incursion unfolded without warning at 6:30am on Saturday, nearly 50 years to the day since the outset of the brutal Yom Kippur war, with Hamas launching thousands of rockets into Israel and sending warning sirens blaring as far afield as Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
Announcing “the start of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood”, Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif said the group had “targeted enemy positions, airports, and military fortifications” with more than 5,000 missiles and shells.
Footage released by Hamas suggests they used drones to blow up border observation posts and weapons systems, with one militant filmed flying into Israel on a motorised paraglide, in a possible ode to the “night of the gliders” incursion during the run-up to the first Intifada uprising in 1987.
Minutes later, Hamas used explosives and other means to breach the border fence, with fighters pouring through in at least four locations – on foot, in vehicles and on motorbikes – reportedly near the northern Erez border crossin
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SOURCE: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/map-of-israel-palestine-war-b2430323.html
RELATED: In Hamas’ horrific killings, Israeli trauma over the Holocaust resurfaces
Israelis take cover from the incoming rocket fire from the Gaza Strip in Ashkelon, southern Israel, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. AP
Published October 16, 2023
TEL AVIV, Israel — Women, children and older adults hiding in safe rooms gunned down mercilessly. Homes set ablaze with terrified residents still inside them. Children, some bound, forced into a room and slaughtered. Jews, helpless.
For many Israelis and Jews around the world, the horrors committed by Hamas militants during their stunning onslaught on southern Israeli communities is triggering painful memories of a calamity of a far greater scale: the Holocaust.
Long seen as a catastrophe so horrific nothing else should be compared to it, Israelis are now drawing direct parallels between the murder of 6 million Jews in Europe eight decades ago and their most recent tragedy, underscoring how traumatic the attack has been for a country that rose from the ashes of World War II and was created as a safe haven for Jews.
Israel’s retaliation against Hamas in Gaza has also drawn comparisons to the Palestinians’ greatest national tragedy, the Nakba, when hundreds of thousands fled or were forced to flee following the 1948 war that led to Israel’s creation. Many Palestinians fear a repeat of that mass exodus after Israel ordered the evacuation of northern Gaza.
Just a few years ago, comparisons to the Holocaust would have been promptly denounced as cheapening its memory and diminishing the horror of the Nazi crimes.
That has begun to erode in recent years — with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alluding to the Nazis when talking about Iran and its nuclear program and protesters on rival sides of the political aisle calling each other “Nazis.” Still, such incidents remain rare and often draw criticism.
But the horrors of the Oct. 7 Hamas assault, which killed at least 1,300 Israelis, have tapped into Israel’s deepest fears and revived memories of the Jews’ greatest trauma.
