Sickening footage has emerged of the moment murderous Hamas gunmen shot dead an Israeli family’s dog before storming their home, raiding their fridge and setting fire to their house amid a campaign of civilian slaughter.
The gruesome attack was just one of dozens that unfolded in the kibbutz of Be’er, a small farming community where Israeli security forces and rescue workers later found 108 bodies – about 10 percent of its population – after a crash. long hostages with armed men.
The video, taken from a GoPro camera attached to the helmet of a Hamas fighter, showed the dog running out of the house towards the attackers and being immediately mowed down by several bullets.
Hamas terrorists immediately invaded a home and began going through the family’s belongings, drinking orange juice from their refrigerator and immersing themselves in its contents.
A militant then took a lighter out of his pocket and took it to the wall, lighting the houseplants and hanging ornaments that quickly burned before they came out.
Another chilling scene from the same kibbutz showed how a second group of Hamas militants gained entry to the gated compound by massacring civilians near the empty site as they sat in a car.
The gruesome attack was just one of dozens that unfolded in the Be’eri kibbutz, a small farming community where Israeli security forces and rescue workers later found 108 bodies.
A militant took a lighter from his pocket and took it to the wall, lighting house plants and hanging ornaments that quickly burned before they came out.
The dog came out of the house towards the attackers and was immediately mowed down with several bullets
CCTV footage, captured at 6.05am on Saturday morning, captured a group of tired Hamas gunmen lying in wait
Another chilling scene from the same kibbutz showed how a second group of Hamas militants gained entry to the closed compound by slaughtering civilians near the empty site as they sat in a car.
As soon as the civilians stopped at the gate and activated the electronic barrier, the gunmen emerged from cover, pointed their rifles at the car windows from feet away and blasted the passengers.
The bodies of dozens of Israeli civilians are seen loaded into a truck after the massacre
Body bags from the Israeli Hamas attack
CCTV footage, captured at 6:05am on Saturday, captured a group of tired Hamas gunmen lying in wait at the entrance gate of the Be’eri community.
Unable to open the electronically operated gate, they took up positions on either side as a couple of civilians approached their family living room, completely unaware.
As soon as the civilians stopped at the gate and activated the electronic barrier, the gunmen emerged from cover, pointed their rifles at the car windows from just feet away and blasted the passengers with several rounds.
Windows were immediately smashed and innocent civilian residents were hit with bullets.
The closing moments of the disturbing footage show Hamas militants walking through the open gate as the car, its passengers lying still and covered in blood, gently rolls forward with no one at the wheel.
More than 1,000 Hamas gunmen crossed the border from Gaza into Israel on Saturday and began indiscriminately shooting civilians while taking others hostage.
About 900 Israelis have been killed in the brutal attacks by Hamas, prompting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to declare war on the Palestinian militant group and begin a campaign of oppressive airstrikes in Gaza.
Netanyahu, who first came to power in Israel in 1996 and has served three separate terms, compared Hamas to the Islamic State group and said Israel planned to deploy “unprecedented force” that would “echo for generations’.
“We have just started to hit Hamas,” Netanyahu, 73, said in a nationally televised address late last night.
“What we do to our enemies in the coming days will reverberate with them for generations.
“Hamas terrorists tied up, burned and executed the children. They are wild. Hamas is ISIS,” Netanyahu concluded.
Thousands of Hamas targets have been obliterated in brutal aerial bombardment campaigns, Israeli defense officials claimed, but harrowing videos circulating on social media showed how rockets and bombs also wiped out Palestinian residential blocks, killing hundreds of civilians.
Israel also ordered a ‘total encirclement’ of Gaza, cutting off electricity, fuel and food to the 2.3 million Palestinians, most of whom were already living in dire poverty.
The four-day war has already claimed at least 1,600 lives, as Israel saw gun battles on the streets of its cities for the first time in decades and neighborhoods in Gaza were reduced to rubble.
Israeli security forces and rescue workers later found 108 bodies – about 10 percent of Be’er’s population – after a long hostage standoff with gunmen.
Hamas militant is seen taking a civilian hostage after shooting many others in cold blood
More than 1,000 Hamas gunmen crossed the border from Gaza into Israel on Saturday and began indiscriminately shooting civilians while taking others hostage.
A fireball explodes from an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on October 9, 2023
Palestinians look at a fire burning among the rubble of a residential building damaged by Israeli strikes in Gaza City, October 10, 2023
This aerial photo shows heavily damaged buildings after Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City on October 10, 2023
Hamas terrorists have taken up to 150 people hostage
In response to the ferocious aerial bombardment of Gaza, Hamas warned late last night that it would begin executing Israeli civilian prisoners.
“Any targeting of our people without warning will be met with the execution of one of the civilian hostages,” Hamas’ armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, said in a statement.
Hamas militants kidnapped up to 150 people, including women and children, from Israeli territory and dragged them to Gaza amid their merciless slaughter.
“We have decided to put an end to this and as of now, we declare that any targeting of our people in their homes without prior warning will be regretfully met with the execution of one of the civilian hostages we are holding,” Abu Obaida. the Al-Qassam Brigades spokesman later added in a recording published on Al Jazeera.
The IDF is now under tremendous pressure to retrieve the hostages as quickly as possible.
Alexander Grinberg, of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, said that “Israeli attacks will primarily target Hamas command centers and troops, with fire coming from everywhere.”
“At the same time, the army will prepare to enter Gaza,” he said.
Such urban warfare will force combatants into hand-to-hand combat, reduce visibility, increase the risk of traps, blur the lines between civilians and soldiers, and render armored vehicles nearly useless.
“Everybody knows it’s going to be long and hard, with a lot of casualties,” Grinberg said, although technologies such as robots could work in the attacking forces’ favor.
Former British army officer Andrew Galer, who works as an analyst at the private intelligence firm Janes, said the IDF’s fight in the Gaza Strip would be tough, as fighting in the city is ‘a 360-degree battlefield’ as threats can be all around you. ‘
Going door-to-door to secure potentially bomb-proofed buildings means bringing in bomb disposal experts with heavy equipment such as ladders, ropes and explosives – “probably all on fire” and in the dark, he added. .
And there are “inherent risks” of friendly fire, given the “difficulties of situational awareness,” Galer said.
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