Kfar Aza, just 3 kilometres from the Gaza Strip, was among the communities hit hardest by the Hamas assault on southern Israel.
A baby’s crushed crib lying outside a burnt-out home. Corpses strewn on streets. Body bags lined up on an outdoor basketball court. The stench of death everywhere.
“It’s not a war, it’s not a battlefield. It’s a massacre,” Veruv said. Some victims were decapitated, he added. “I’ve never seen anything like this, and I’ve served for 40 years.” An Israeli soldier exits a destroyed house after an attack by Palestinian militants near the border with Gaza in Kfar Gaza, Israel.Kfar Aza attack survivor Avidor Schwartzman said he hid with his wife and one-year-old daughter in the safe room of their house for more than 20 hours before being rescued by Israeli soldiers and emerging to confront a scene of “pure hell”.
A burned house after an attack by Palestinian militants on a kibbutz near the border with Gaza in Kfar Gaza, Israel.The military spokesperson at the site said at least dozens of residents had been killed in the attack. She added that it hadn’t yet pieced together the precise chain of events, with fighting having only completely ended late on Monday.
Waves of the attackers, armed with Kalashnikov rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and hand grenades, stormed the village, a reserve soldier told Reuters, declining to be named as he was not authorised to speak to the media. “We heard shootings and we were basically barricaded in for 21 hours until the army rescued us,” his wife, Keren Flash, took up the account.
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