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<\/p>\nA SLEEPY Israeli town was transformed into a hellish wasteland as brutal Hamas terrorists cruelly massacred at least 40 babies and kids.<\/p>\n
Savage militants – branded the "new Nazis" – went house to house in Kfar Aza, beheading youngsters and shooting elderly women in a vile two-day rampage that tore families apart.<\/p>\n
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Just days ago, the scenic farming community of 750 people close to the Gaza border was described as a "little piece of heaven" before Hamas unleashed unimaginable horror.<\/p>\n
Scenes of devastation are all that remain – an abandoned baby's pram by a burnt-out car, corpses strewn on streets and body bags lining an outdoor basketball court.<\/p>\n
Hamas gunmen caught Israel off guard as they stormed out of the Gaza Strip on October 7 on motorbikes and even hand-gliders before laying waste to the town as they began their horror massacre.<\/p>\n
At least 40 kids were killed in Kfar Aza, with many of their bodies riddled with bullets while others were beheaded and families were burnt alive.<\/p>\n
One shellshocked survivor told the Mail: "They are the new Nazis. This was a holocaust, pure and simple."<\/p>\n
Hamas terrorists rammed through the kibbutz's fence, possibly using an earthmover, clearing the way for dozens of other gunmen to enter through the breach, according to the Israeli military.<\/p>\n
Survivor Avidor Schwartzman said he, his wife and their one-year-old daughter were awoken at\u00a06.30am by the booming sounds of rockets.<\/p>\n
An hour later, they swiftly moved to their safe room after receiving a kibbutz-wide text telling them it was dangerous to be outside.<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Schwartzman's wife, Keren Flash, added: "We heard shootings and we were basically barricaded in for 21 hours until the army rescued us.<\/p>\n "We kept hearing shootings and gunfire and bombs and alarms, and we just didn't know what was happening. Our worst nightmares."<\/p>\n The Israeli military said terrorists went door to door, gunning down entire families and panic rippled through the settlement.<\/p>\n Armed with guns, grenades and knives, Hamas gunmen beheaded men, women, children and\u00a0babies\u00a0in their beds after storming over the border.<\/p>\n One survivor, Shmuel Harel, told how his elderly grandmother was brutally gunned down in her own home.<\/p>\n He said the 90-year-old, who had lived in the town since she was a young woman, hadn't locked the door of her shelter as she was confused.<\/p>\n Mr Harel told the Mail: "She was the sweetest old lady, and they pulled her out of her shelter and dragged her to her living room.<\/p>\n "A 90-year-old – what possible harm could she do them? Then they went to her 71-year-old cousin, Ofer Ron, and shot him too in exactly the same way."<\/p>\n The town stayed in Hamas' control for two days of horror as Israeli troops scrambled to get to the area.<\/p>\n Its soldiers were faced with the gut-wrenching task of recovering the bodies of dozens of victims.<\/p>\n Troops also frantically tried to secure the streets of the town, once neatly lined with palm trees, banana plants and single-storey houses with verandas.<\/p>\n Davidi Ben Zion, the deputy commander of Unit 71 – a team of experienced paratroopers who led the assault – said many victims had been decapitated.<\/p>\n He told BBC: "[Hamas gunmen were] just a jihad machine to kill everybody, [people] without weapons, without nothing, just normal citizens that want to take their breakfast and that's all.<\/p>\n "They killed them and cut some of their heads.<\/p>\n "It's a dreadful thing to see\u2026 and we must remember who is the enemy, and what our mission is, [for] justice where there is a right side and all the world needs to be behind us."<\/p>\n Schwartzman said they hid for more than 20 hours before being rescued by Israeli soldiers and emerging to confront a scene of "pure hell".<\/p>\n The dad, 38, added: "There were bodies everywhere. Dead bodies everywhere.<\/p>\n "We saw our little piece of paradise, our little piece of heaven, was totally burnt \u2013 burnt and with blood everywhere."<\/p>\n There was no official death toll from the Kfar Aza kibbutz as of October 11, with Israeli soldiers still searching homes they suspect may be booby-trapped with explosives.<\/p>\n Shocking photos showed the ruins of burnt-out houses that oversaw streets scattered with dead residents and militants, torched cars and piles of broken furniture and other wreckage.<\/p>\n Outside one home, the body of a resident lay covered by a purple bed sheet with a bare foot protruding.<\/p>\n A pillow lay nearby with other kit from their everyday life.<\/p>\n One soldier shouted: "Tell the world what you saw here."<\/p>\n Kfar Aza\u00a0is likely to emerge as the scene of the biggest massacre of the war between Hamas and Israel.<\/p>\n The town was one of more than 15 that bore the brunt of the militant group's horror blitz on October 7.<\/p>\n At least 1,000 Israelis were killed – while an estimated 150 soldiers, men, women, children and the elderly into captivity in Gaza.<\/p>\n Hamas\u00a0plotted a careful campaign of deception to ensure Israel was caught off guard as it launched its horrendous assault.<\/p>\n The attack, the worst breach in Israel's defences since Arab armies waged war in 1973, followed two years of subterfuge by\u00a0Hamas\u00a0that involved keeping its military plans under wraps.<\/p>\n Israel was led to believe it was containing Hamas by providing economic incentives to Gazan workers.<\/p>\n But all the while, the group's fighters were being\u00a0trained\u00a0and drilled, according to a source close to Hamas told Reuters.<\/p>\n Israel concedes it was caught off guard by an attack timed to coincide with the Jewish Sabbath and a religious holiday. <\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/EP_JADA_MARRIAGE_BREAKER_COMP.jpg\")
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