HAMAS terrorists massacred at least 40 babies and kids in a sickening rampage in one town – with some found beheaded, Israel claimed.
Israeli soldiers discovered scenes of unimaginable horror in Kfar Aza – a village close to the Gaza border that was captured for two days by the Hamas militants.
The Israeli army has taken back control of the besieged village and its soldiers now face the gut-wrenching task of recovering the bodies of dozens of victims.
Armed with guns, grenades and knives, Hamas terrorists butchered men, women, children and babies in their beds early on Saturday morning after storming over the border.
Speaking from the scene of the bloodbath, i24News reporter Nicole Zedek said a soldier told her they had found "babies with heads cut off".
At least 40 babies and children were slaughtered as entire families were burned alive in their homes and shot dead.
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Visibly shaken by the atrocities, Nicole said: "No one could expect it to be like this – the horrors I'm hearing from these soldiers.
"About 40 babies at least were taken out on gurneys. They are going house to house still taking out dead bodies."
She said cots and buggies were abandoned in the streets as terrified families fled the rampaging terrorists – who stormed the village in "waves" every 20 minutes for an agonising 48 hours.
Amid the burned-out houses, horrifying images show blood-soaked baby seats as Hamas militants appeared to have indiscriminately opened fire on vehicles.
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Major General Itai Veruv described sickening scenes of brutal violence – where whole families were murdered in their homes.
He told reporters: "You see the babies, the mothers, the fathers, in their bedrooms, in their protection rooms and how the terrorist kills them.
"It's not a war. It's not a battlefield. It's a massacre.
"It's something I've never seen in my life. It's something we used to imagine from our grandfathers, grandmothers in the pogrom in Europe and other places."
Reporters who were allowed into the village on Tuesday described a horrifying "smell of death".
It comes as…
- Israel blitzed Gaza with more heavy airstrikes overnight
- The IDF mobilised 300,000 reservists for a full-scale ground invasion
- More than 3,000 have been confirmed dead in Israel and Gaza and thousands more injured
- PM Netanyahu dubbed Hamas "worse than ISIS" and said Israel will crush them with "a force like never before"
- The terrorists threatened to execute hostages and broadcast grisly footage
- Three British citizens have been confirmed dead, while seven other Brits are missing
Some Israeli soldiers appeared visibly shaken by the brutality as they found streets littered with corpses after Hamas terrorists went from door-to-door gunning down entire families.
Graphic images showed families slaughtered in their bedrooms and living rooms – with the walls of their homes riddled with bullet holes.
A Telegram account set up by Israeli first responders said: "Nothing was spared. It's all systematic slaughter and destruction of everything that moves."
As bodies of victims are still being recovered in the decimated village, the total death toll is not known.
One soldier told ITV News: "It reminds me of the pogroms and of the Nazis."
More than 100 bodies have also been found in the kibbutz Be’eri – also one of first places targeted by Hamas.
Volunteers in yellow vests and face masks carried the dead out of homes on stretchers.
A trail of blood wound along the floor of a house where bodies had been dragged out by militants into the street from a blood-soaked kitchen strewn with overturned furniture.
More than 3,000 people have been killed on both sides since Hamas stormed the border and massacred hundreds in the surprise attack.
Following Hamas' threat to execute some of the 150 civilian hostages, Israel unleashed a relentless barrage of airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.
The militants are now reportedly planning to post sickening footage of Israeli hostages after the terror group threatened a major rocket attack on the port city of Ashkelon.
On Monday, the armed wing of Hamas said it would begin executing one Israeli captive and broadcast footage for every civilian house bombed in Gaza without warning.
Israeli schools have sent a message to parents to immediately remove apps like TikTok and Instagram from their children's phones' so they won't come across graphic content.
Israel earlier urged civilians in Gaza to flee south to Egypt ahead of an all-out ground assault as Hamas bombards the Israeli city of Ashkelon with rockets.
The Israeli army is gathering 173,000 troops – including 8,000 elite commandos – along with 300 tanks, artillery pieces and rocket launchers in border town Sderot.
A further 300,000 reserve troops have been readied ahead of the planned invasion.
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The Israeli Defence Force has also reportedly begun laying mines as it blockades the Gaza Strip, cutting off food, water and electricity.
The US is also moving several warships – including USS Gerald Ford – and aircraft to the Mediterranean after Joe Biden pledged Washington's "rock solid" support to Tel Aviv.
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