This is how the horrifying terror attack on an Israeli music festival unfolded on Saturday, and the complex regional history that lies behind the deadliest day in the country's history.
Some 70 Hamas terrorists wielding guns and grenades stormed Kfar Aza kibbutz. Read our Israel-Hamas live blog to stay up-to-date with all latest developments. *** WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT ***The smell of rotting bodies hangs in the air at the Kfar Aza kibbutz where Hamas terrorists massacred and beheaded families, including 40 children, in a savage attack on Israeli soil.
The first wave of 70 terrorists had roared towards the quiet kibbutz on motorbikes after tearing through the border wire a mile away, while others paraglided over Israel's unsuspecting defences from Gaza. The terrorists were met by a frantic kibbutz guard, a small group of residents with military experience, who were patrolling the perimeter when they saw the swarm of black figures racing towards them.
Among those parents were Itay and Hadar Berichevsky, both 30, who heard the gunmen trying to smash down their front door. The Hamas gunmen set fire to several homes in the kibbutz in a sick attempt to force the families out so that they could gun them down as soon as they reached their garden. An IDF soldier covers his face before removing the body of a civilian killed days earlier in an attack by Hamas terrorists on Tuesday
'They shot children, babies, old people, anyone. No one was safe from it. The first victim was a 90-year-old woman who was sitting on her porch. She saw them coming and she got shot.' She was taken in by a family who let her hide in their saferoom, where they waited for 27 hours until they were rescued. The young mother has since been told that her husband was killed by the terrorists.'They abandoned us. They were on Twitter. That's where they were.'
Astonishingly, the ten-month-old twin babies bundled into a hidden shelter by Itay and Hadar Berdichevsky were rescued by Israeli soldiers and taken to their grandmother.A charred house after an attack by Palestinian terrorists on the kibbutz on Tuesday Throughout the town, walls and torched cars are riddled with bullet holes, tracing a path of violence that continues inside to bedrooms with mattresses spattered in blood, safe rooms that could not withstand the attack
'I've served as a combat soldier and officer for 39 years,' Veruv continued. 'I've never seen anything that comes close to this. It's not even something that our parents knew. This is something out of the world of our grandfathers back in Europe, from the pogroms and the Holocaust. Major David Ben Zion, 37, a reservist called up to try to rescue any survivors, told The Independent: 'We saw dead babies, girls. We succeeded in saving some of them but we found most dead in their houses. They came with just one mission – to kill more and more of our people.'
'I remember going through 9/11 and waking up the next day, the next week, and everything had changed,' he said. 'It's the same thing again. But worse because we're such a small country.'
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