At Israel kibbutz, Hamas killed elders in street in act of ‘humiliation’

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Hamas launched its surprise attack on Israel, Col. Golan Vach arrived at the Be’eri kibbutz to evacuate residents.“What I saw here was not only murder,” he said Saturday as he returned to the heavily damaged community near the Gaza border a week later.“It was humiliation.”A collection of bungalows and farmland in the Negev Desert, Be’eri was the site of one of worst massacres of the Oct.

7 Hamas invasion.Among the more than 100 dead Israelis were white-haired elders, whom Col. Vach said were shot in the street and then smashed in the face with heavy objects.To Col.

Vach, who showed Global News photos he took on his phone to back up his account, the excess of the Hamas violence was telling.It was evidence that what happened was not just an armed incursion by resistance fighters, as Hamas and its supporters have said. Rather, it was a statement.The same was apparent elsewhere in Be’eri, and has been reported in other areas that Hamas targeted, including the Nir Oz kibbutz 30 kilometres away.After Nir Oz came under attack, Shoy Shimoni began exchanging messages with her mother, a kibbutz resident.

The last message came at 6:50 a.m.Ten minutes later, a video appeared on her mother’s Facebook page. It showed Shimoni’s mother lying on her back in her living room with blood around her head.A gunman stood over her, pointing his rifle down at her.

The family showed the video to Global News on the grounds it was only for verification purposes and would not to be aired.The screams the video elicited were captured on a phone call recording, which she replayed to Global News to convey the horror of the moment.The granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, Shimoni said her mother, Bracha Levinson, believed in peace with Palestinians. She