The IDF let in foreign media for the first time into a village that had been taken over by terrorists during the weekend attack.
The journalists were allowed to see firsthand the scope of the massacre in the kibbutz of Kfar Aza, including some of the bodies that were still strewn in the area, next to charred cars.
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The following are images and videos taken. Israeli Major General Itai Veruv describes what he found as he led the Gaza border villages rescue mission after Hamas brutally attacked
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Major General Itai Veruv described to i24NEWS the brutal scenes that awaited the Israeli forces, when they arrived to rescue Gaza border villages, after a Hamas terrorist attack. "It's not a war, it's not a battlefield, you see the babies, the mother, the father, in their bedrooms, in their protection rooms, and how the terrorists killed them," Veruv stressed.
Video: 'It's a massacre' - Israeli kibbutz highlights destruction of Hamas attack / Credit: Reuters
"It's not a war, it's not a battlefield, it's a massacre," the major general reiterated what he saw. "It's a terror activity." "You can look about it yourself, it's something that I've never seen in my life," Veruv admitted, as journalists entered the area for the first time since it was cleared of Hamas terrorists. "It's something we used to imagine from our grandmothers, grandfathers in pogroms in Europe and other places," the Israeli general recalled Jewish history that's been full of deadly pogroms when entire villages would often also be massacred.
'It's not a war, it's not a battle. It's a massacre'
Journalists are let into Kfar Aza for the first time, four days after the community came under the shock attack by Hamas terrorists
IDF Major General Itai Veruv describes the scene of brutal violence, where whole families… pic.twitter.com/HJzoMKj2Ta
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"It's not something that happened in new [sic] history]," Veruv said, after seeing the brutal violence, where whole families were murdered in their homes. Others who have seen the massacres called back to the Jewish people's history, with Israeli President Isaac Herzog saying "Not since the Holocaust have so many Jews been killed in one day."
"As President of the State of Israel, I speak to you now from our capital city Jerusalem, under the dark shadow of war, as my nation continues to endure a savage attack from a cruel and inhumane enemy," Herzog added in a statement posted on X (formerly Twitter).
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