Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared that Hams's brutality had not been seen since the Shoah, referring to the official name by which Israel designates the tragedy the Jewish people experienced during World War II.
Netanyahu declared on Tuesday evening, October 10, that the attack by Hamas against Israel was "an atrocity not seen since the Holocaust", during a telephone interview with US President Joe Biden.
"We were hit on Saturday by a vicious attack that has not been seen since the Holocaust," declared Benjamin Netanyahu, in a video released by his office.
"Hundreds of massacres, families destroyed in their beds, in their homes, women raped and brutally killed, more than a hundred kidnappings (...), they took dozens of children, tied them up, burned them and executed them, they cut off the heads of the soldiers. ", he added while speaking on the phone with Joe Biden.
Hamas seems to be trying at all costs to propagate its violence as hard as possible. Among the 200 dead in Kfar Aza, 40 were children.
An Israeli television station talks about children between the ages of 2 and 5 found with severed heads. They burned the houses to force people to go out and then to massacre them.
"These are the most terrible things that are done in a war. This is not even a war at all, this is a massacre," says Israeli general Itai Veruv.
The accounts of the survivors and those of the relatives of the abducted persons are chilling.
"The worst of all is the feeling that you are completely hopeless, you don't know anything about what happened to your children. God forbid they die, but if so, at least you have the opportunity to give them a grave. We are in a state of terror, we don't know if they are alive or not", says the father of the two kidnapped children, Itzik Hor.
The death of a grandmother broadcast live on social networks, militants informing Israelis that their relatives have been killed or humiliating videos of hostages. Experts say this is done on purpose. Violence is the common denominator in many other photos and videos spread online by Hamas or its supporters since Saturday.
"It's intentional, the intent is to create a sense of weakness, paralysis and humiliation," says Michael Horowitz, a security analyst at the firm Le Beck International. Even the most gruesome footage has gone viral, including footage of a woman's partially naked body in a truck as gunmen scream. But by posting these videos, Hamas also provides the clearest evidence of the group's crimes.
"Hamas and other Palestinian media, affiliated or not, are providing evidence of war crimes," experts say.
The militant group is considered a terrorist organization by the US and the European Union after suicide bombings in the 1990s and 2000s.
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