Israel’s Netanyahu shares photos he says are ‘babies murdered and burned’ by Hamas

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday released images on social media that he says are of babies killed by Hamas militants during last weekend’s attack on the country.

He said he shared the images with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who travelled to Tel Aviv in a show of support for Israel.

The images show what Netanyahu said were “horrifying photos of babies murdered and burned by the Hamas monsters.”

Global News has not independently verified the images or other allegations Netanyahu has shared publicly since the attack.

In a joint press conference alongside Netanyahu after their meeting, Blinken said those images and others were “harrowing.”

“It’s impossible for me to look at the photos of families killed — such as the mother, father, and three small children murdered as they sheltered in their home in Kibbutz Nir Oz — and not think of my own children,” Blinken said.

“Babies slaughtered. Bodies desecrated. Young people burned alive. Women raped. Parents executed in front of their children, children in front of their parents. How are we even to understand this, to digest this?”

In a late-night televised address Wednesday following his formation of a wartime government cabinet, Netanyahu alleged that the attackers engaged in atrocities, including binding boys and girls and shooting them in the head, burning people alive, raping women and beheading soldiers.

The prime minister vowed to “crush and destroy” Hamas, and warned