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Forensic pathologists, including Israeli staffers as well as volunteers from abroad, were visibly disturbed by the evidence before them. Stifling the urge to retch became a difficult task as I walked through the lower levels of Israel’s National Center of Forensic Medicine (Abu Kabir) in Tel Aviv. The smell of rotting human remains, much of which was completely unrecognizable as human due to the brutality of the attack, was at times too much to bear. In light of the growing international interest in (and denials of) the Palestinian terror group Hamas’ October 7 massacre in southern Israel, representatives of the...

The bodies of 20 children have been found tied together and burned close to their kibbutz after being murdered by Hamas militants. Volunteer recovery teams made the disturbing shortly after discovering a naked woman's body bound in metal underneath rubble. As more residents return home after being forced to flee the violence of Hamas militants, the grim reality of the assault against civilians is becoming clearer. Rescuers said the children's bodies were found just a few miles off Kibbutz Be'eri, near the easter border with Gaza. Their claim appears to match an earlier report from a member of Zaka South,...

Trigger Warning RAW FOOTAGE: Hamas jihadists squad invasion and killing spree of an innocent Israeli community. The filmed terrorist was neutralized by Israeli security forces.

In addition, the President presented shocking photos of atrocities in the massacre at Kibbutz Be’eri, which he visited this morning. In the booklet, recovered on the battlefield from a Hamas terrorist who was killed after taking part in the attack on Israel, terrorists are advised in detail on how to carry out the kidnapping. According to the description, the kidnappers are required to create chaos and intimidation, coercing and blindfolding captives, using electric shocks, and instructing them to execute any person who may pose a threat or distraction. They were also instructed to collect the captives and use them as...

Stephen Gerard Kelly and Garry Keane’s documentary In The Shadow of Beirut has been submitted as Ireland‘s entry for the 2024 Oscar International Feature Film race. The film, which is executive produced by Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton and Siobhan Sinnerton of HiddenLight Productions, was selected Thursday by the Irish Film & Television Academy, which last year selected The Quiet Girl for its submission. That film, directed by Colm Bairéad, became the first Irish film to be nominated in the category. For The Shadow of Beirut, first-time filmmaker Kelly spent five years living among the film’s four featured families in the...

IDF fighter jets operated in the Gaza Strip and killed Billal Al Kedra last night, the Nukhba commander of the forces in southern Khan Yunis. Following Shin Bet (ISA) intelligence, IDF fighter jets operated in the Gaza Strip and killed Billal Al Kedra last night, the Nukhba commander of the forces in southern Khan Yunis, who was responsible for the Kibbutz Nirim massacre. Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror operatives were also killed. The IDF also struck over one hundred military targets located in Zaytun, Khan Yunis, and west Jabaliya. These strikes impacted the capabilities of the Hamas terrorist organization, by...

Among the holes, omission, biases at the: 'War in the Holy Land: A PBS News Special Report' [Oct 13, 2023] (By: Andrew Yang, Amna Nawaz, Geoff Bennett, Leila Molana-Allen) 1. In its narration of the historic background, it starts off about 1947 partition, however, the elephant in the room is/was that the Arabs rejected and the Jews accepted. Why was this ignored? Even Arafat acknowledged it was a mistake. And just 'how' and on what 'basis' did the Arabs rejected, via their representative Jamal Husseini? Dr. J Herf: 'Husseini claimed the Arab world's "territorial continuity" served as a "natural bulwark...

The documents were turned over to NBC by Israeli first responders. American news broadcaster NBC published documents on Saturday recovered from Hamas terrorists killed in southern Israel that show detailed plans to target children and young people from Sa'ad, a religious kibbutz in the Negev desert. The documents included everything from maps specifying the location of kindergartens and schools, plans for how many to kill and take hostage, as well as detailed escape plans. Although schools in Israel are closed on Saturdays, many Israeli children play in the basketball or soccer courts at the schools. The documents labeled "top secret"...

"...The massacre against Israel was rooted in Hamas’s lethal, radical ideology. Believing anything else is believing lies. In a striking interview with Sky News, political and international relations for Hamas, Basem Naim, told the reporter that Hamas did not kill any innocent Israeli civilians..."

The use of graphic images...What is less stressed in the media, is: In Israel, there is high sensitivity to the families. In addition, graphic images usage was / is rarely Israel's policy. Unlike on the Gaza / West Bank / Lebanese side, where every child (used by Hamas, PIJ, Hezbollah, other jihadists - directly or indirectly by using residents) is photographed a thousand times. (And pro Jihadists Al-Jazeera enthusiastsic to inflame the Arab world.). The Israelis usually refrain from this routine. This goes too, of course, to the beheaded babies by "Palestinians" - case. Asides from the unreliable Hamas controlled...

Mountains of rubble and sooty earth: first entry into the epicenters of the disaster - after the terrible massacre The extent of the destruction in Netiv HaAsara and Bari is not yet fully known, but it is known about dozens of murdered people and scenes that are difficult to describe in words • The photos of the horror illustrate the magnitude of the tragedy that occurred in the Eshkol Regional Council, with dozens of houses burned by terrorists - many times with their occupants • Our correspondents with the first documents from the settlements that were destroyed • Documentation Tamir...

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IDF Major General Itai Veruv described the scene in Kfar Aza as 'a massacre' By Lawrence Richard Fox News Published October 10, 2023 11:46am EDT Israel’s military has discovered unspeakable horrors in an Israeli community that was attacked by Hamas on Saturday, including dozens of dead babies, some with of their heads chopped off, Israeli media reported. According to local Israeli outlet i24News, Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers moved into Kfar Aza, one of the communities Hamas terrorists invaded early Saturday morning, and discovered about 40 dead babies, some decapitated — highlighting the brutality of the invading forces. IDF were...

Fifteen minutes later, one of Markey’s Capitol Hill colleagues, U.S. Rep. Jake Auchincloss, D-4th District, seemed to hit back at the Democratic senator’s remarks. “Now is not the time for equivocation,” Auchincloss said. “Hamas is an internationally recognized terrorist organization that is executing and raping civilians. Israel is a liberal democracy with the right and responsibility to defend itself and its citizens. “Deescalation is not possible when they are taking hostages. And Israel did not ask America to deescalate on September 12, 2001,” he said. By midday Monday, when the crowd rallied on the Boston Common, an estimated 1,500 people...

Please meet Mahmoud Abourjila. He is one of the murderers of 22-year-old German-Israeli Shani Louk, whose half naked dead body was desecrated and paraded on a Hamas pick-up truck. He was identified by German internet users. The other men involved will also be identified. [pic.twitter.com/trEuXi5C8s] — Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 9, 2023 [https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1711382803772801135]

A survivor of the attack said he saw scantily clad corpses, many of whom appeared to have been shot point-blank By Orlando Radice, October 09, 2023 11:03 Screengran from a video shot as revellers realise Hamas gunmen are attacking. A survivor of the rave massacre – in which over 260 young revellers at a party near the Gaza Strip were gunned down by Hamas terrorists – has said that women were “raped next to the dead bodies of their friends”. Speaking to US website Tablet, the survivor said that several of the rape victims appeared to have been executed later,...

As news was breaking on Saturday and we were leaning about the atrocities that were taking place in Israel, I immediately wrote an article. But even as I was writing, the news kept getting worse. How could this be happening? It turns out that things were far worse than we could have imagined. Here are some open, honest, raw reflections on the last 48 hours.

At least 260 bodies have been found by rescuers after Hamas opened fire on Israeli partygoers at a music festival near the Gaza Strip yesterday morning, with emergency workers calling the scene a 'massacre'. Terrified festivalgoers first realised something was wrong when a siren began blaring at dawn warning of rockets. Hamas terrorists then cut the electricity before firing rockets and blasting gunshots from jeeps they drove onto the site. -snip- 'I've never seen anything like it in my life. It was a planned ambush. As people came out of the emergency exits, squads of terrorists were waiting for them...

U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) shared a post in which media personality Mehdi Hasan warned against indiscriminate killing in Gaza after Hamas launched a brutal terrorist attack against Israel, sending rockets, killing hundreds, destroying buildings and taking hostages. Rep. Omar issued a “reminder” — as the world rallies around Israel — that Gaza, from which the Hamas attacks were launched “doesn't have shelters or an iron dome” to protect civilians and, anticipating the Israel’s powerful response, she asks people to “Please pray for them.” Drawing vituperative rebuke in the comments, Omar writes: “Palestinians are human beings who have been in...

For weeks, excited music-lovers had looked forward to the Supernova festival, held in the desert in southern Israel to coincide with the Jewish festival of Sukkot. "The time has come when the whole family is about to get together again," organisers wrote on social media before it began. "And what fun it is going to be!" Just hours later, their social media pages are now flooded with desperate people trying to find loved ones, after Palestinian militants stormed the festival and opened fire as part of huge surprise attack on Israel. One partygoer, called Ortel, said the first sign that...