Israel releases images of babies murdered and burned by Hamas as ‘verified photos’ of others beheaded by terrorists are ‘confirmed’ by local media and rescue team reveals pregnant woman ‘had child sliced from her womb’

Israel today released harrowing images of tiny babies who were murdered and burned by Hamas terrorists amid their ruthless attacks this weekend that saw hundreds of Israeli civilians including pregnant women killed in their homes. 

One appalling image shows the small body of a baby, who couldn’t be more than 12 months old, lying on a now bloodied white body bag that is too large for it. The little child’s baby grow dotted with flowers is covered in blood after the rampaging terrorists unleashed horrors that defy belief.

Another two photographs released by Israel show the blackened and charred bodies of two babies who were murdered by the Hamas gunmen when they stormed their homes in southern Israel. Their bodies are so disfigured it’s impossible to make out where their arms and legs would have been. 

MailOnline has chosen to publish heavily blurred versions of these images to show the horrors that Hamas terrorists unleashed on hundreds of Israelis after they stormed over the border from Gaza on Saturday. 

It comes as apparently verified photographs of other babies beheaded by the ruthless terrorists in the Kfar Aza kibbutz just a mile away from the border were ‘confirmed’ by journalists at the Jerusalem Post. 

The Kfar Aza kibbutz was one of the first Israeli settlements to be targeted on Saturday morning by Hamas. It was here that the terrorists, wielding assault rifles and grenades, ruthlessly shot dead screaming families as they begged for their lives before setting fire to their homes.

A rescue team who visited the kibbutz, where the smell of rotting bodies still hangs in the air, told how they saw a pregnant lady lying on the floor of the first house they walked into. When they turned her over, they saw that her unborn baby had been sliced from her womb. 

‘We saw a pregnant lady lying on the floor, and then we turn her around and see that the stomach is cut open, wide open,’ Yossi Landau, an aid worker at the NGO Zaka, told i24News, his voice cracking with emotion. 

‘The unborn baby, still connected with umbilical cord, was stabbed with a knife. And the mother was shot in the head. And you use your imagination, trying to figure out what came first.’

Landau detailed further atrocities that defy belief. He said in the next house, he and his team saw two parents with their hands behind their backs. ‘Lying by their side were two small children, with their hands also tied behind their back. They were all burned to death,’ Landau said. 

‘I saw a dead mother holding her dead baby, both killed with a single bullet that went through them. I saw 20 children shot and burned and piled together and two piles,’ Landau said, his voice now overcome with emotion at the horrors he’s witnessed. 

In response to the barbaric attacks, which has seen 1,300 Israelis massacred, Israel has launched a relentless barrage of airstrikes that have obliterated entire neighbourhoods in Gaza and killed 1,343 Palestinians. 

And in a sign that Israel has no notion of stopping its airstrikes, the IDF today dropped leaflets over Beit Lahia in the Gaza Strip calling on people to leave their homes and go to shelters.

‘For your safety, you must leave your homes immediately and go to shelters. The IDF is not interested in harming you or your family members. Anyone who is near Hamas terrorists or terrorist targets will put their lives in danger,’ the text of the leaflet reads.

The Gaza Strip, home to 2.3million civilians, has been bombarded by approximately 6,000 bombs containing a total of 4,000 tonnes of explosives since Saturday when it began striking Hamas targets, the Israeli army said. 

The brutal aerial assaults comes as Israel released harrowing images of babies murdered and then burned by the barbaric Hamas terrorists.   

It had earlier emerged that the terrorists massacred entire families including 40 babies at the Kfar Aza kibbutz, with some Israeli soldiers claiming that some of the children had been beheaded according to reports.

Now, the Jerusalem Post said it can ‘now confirm based on verified photos of the bodies being burnt and decapitated in Hamas’s massacre on Kfar Aza are correct’. 

The newspaper said the photos of decapitated babies and their burned bodies were shown to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during his visit to Israel today.

Earlier this morning, an Israeli military spokesman appeared to confirm the reports that Hamas terrorists beheaded babies. 

Israeli Defence Forces spokesman Jonathan Conricus said a coroner who visited the aftermath of the massacre at a Kibbutz close to the Gaza Strip had seen the children’s bodies and confirmed how they died.

‘I admit it took us some time to really understand and to verify that report, and it was hard to believe that even Hamas could perform such a barbaric act,’ he said in comments carried by the BBC.

‘I think we can now say, with relative confidence, that this is what Hamas did… there were bodies scattered everywhere, mutilated.’  

And Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant today showed uncensored footage of the atrocities committed by the terrorists to his counterparts at a NATO meeting, while comparing Hamas to ISIS. 

‘I walked from house to house. And saw the bodies of our pioneers, the Holocaust survivors, burned alive. Children were tied and shot. Yes I repeat, children were tied up and shot,’ Gallant said. 

‘We’ve have been hit hard. Yet make no mistake – 2023 is not 1943. We are the same Jews, but we have different capabilities. The State of Israel is strong,’ he added. 

Two Israeli kibbutz in particular – Be’eri and Kfar Aza – suffered heinous savagery at the hands of Hamas.

Kfar Aza kibbutz is thought to be the site where the worst of the atrocities against babies occurred given its popularity with young parents and was one of the first Israeli settlements to be targeted on Saturday morning by the terrorists. 

The terror began just after dawn on Saturday morning when most of the 400 Israeli residents living at the Kfar Aza kibbutz were either sleeping or enjoying their breakfast with coffee. 

The first wave of 70 terrorists had roared towards the quiet kibbutz on motorbikes after tearing through the border wire a mile away, while others paraglided over Israel’s unsuspecting defences from Gaza.

As soon as they arrived, the heavily armed fighters attacked the compound from four directions – starting with the ‘baby quarter’ on the west side where the young families lived.

The terrorists were met by a frantic kibbutz guard, a small group of residents with military experience who were patrolling the perimeter when they saw the swarm of black figures racing towards them on their motorbikes. 

They – like the Israeli military and government – were not prepared for the wave of terrorists firing streams of bullets at them. The small security squad tried in vain to protect their neighbours, but they couldn’t hold the terrorists off and they were killed in the intense fighting. 

The ruthless Hamas gunmen moved quickly through the kibbutz, first killing a 90-year-old grandmother who had been sitting on her porch when the terrorists arrived. They dragged the terrified pensioner into her living room and shot her twice in the head.

Families were woken to the terrifying sound of gunfire and voices outside their homes. Terrified parents ran to their sleeping children and plucked them out of their beds and cots before bundling them into safe rooms or cupboards.

Among those parents were Itay and Hadar Berichevsky, both 30, who knew they only had mere seconds to react when they heard the gunmen trying to smash down their front door, knowing that if they didn’t, their children would never have a future.

The terrified parents frantically put their two 10-month-old twin babies into a hidden shelter moments before the Hamas terrorists stormed into their home and shot dead the young couple. 

The terrorists then moved systematically from home to home, blowing open some front doors with their rocket-powered grenades before unleashing a hail of bullets at the men, women and children living there indiscriminately. Entire families had been handcuffed before they were shot point blank one by one, soldiers said.  

It would later emerge that as many as 40 babies and young children were massacred in the kibbutz, some of them beheaded, according to Israeli soldiers who spoke to Israeli news channel i24. Harrowing images from the scene show a baby’s car seat covered with blood, her small bloodied dress lying next to it.

The Hamas gunmen set fire to several homes in the often quiet kibbutz in a sick attempt to force the families out so that they could gun them down as soon as they reached their garden.

‘But many preferred to die in the fires, than be killed by the terrorists,’ Omar Barak, a 24-year-old Israeli army officer, told the Times of Israel.

When asked about the atrocities in a media briefing this morning, another IDF spokesperson Lt Col Richard Hecht said he ‘could not deny’ the reports of the infant beheadings but refused to confirm whether they had been proven. 

He said the reports came from a journalist who spoke with IDF soldiers at the Kfar Aza kibbutz, which like Be’eri suffered horrendous atrocities and many civilian casualties.

‘I want to believe if our 45-year-old reservist told a journalist what he saw, he wasn’t spitting out IDF messages,’ Hecht told the media briefing according to Sky News. ‘I don’t know… I can’t deny.’

Then this morning, the IDF’s official social media accounts published an image showing an ISIS flag they claimed had been left at the kibbutz of Sufa. The image was later circulated by the Jerusalem Post – though it is unclear whether Hamas fighters left the radical Islamist insignia at the kibbutz.

It comes after Netanyahu yesterday shared an image of a bloodstained child’s bed, with the caption ‘Hamas is worse than ISIS‘.

 Speaking to US President Joe Biden yesterday about the Hamas atrocities, Netanyahu said: ‘We’ve never seen such savagery in the history of the state,’ nor ‘since the Holocaust,’ before going on to reference scenes of Nazi brutality against Ukrainians at Babyn Yar during World War II.

‘They took dozens of children, bound them up, burned them and executed them. They beheaded soldiers, they mowed down these youngsters who came to a nature festival, you know, put five jeeps around this depression in the soil and like Babyn Yar, they mowed them down, making sure that they killed everybody,’ he said.

‘They’re even worse than ISIS and we need to treat them as such.’

Meanwhile in Be’eri just a stone’s throw away from Kfar Aza, sickening photos emerged of Israeli civilians lying riddled with bullet holes as they lay in their beds.

Horrific photos too graphic to publish showed how one woman was lying face down in the bed in a pool of blood with six gaping holes in her mottled, decomposing skin.

Next to her, a man with dark hair awkwardly slipped in a gap between the bed and a wall.

His black clothes, which appeared to be pyjamas, were still slick with his blood, which pooled in a dark red mess on the floor below him. 

His body could be seen decomposing – his face has blackened with boils all over his arms. Chunks of his flesh were missing from his right arm and hand. 

Outside, several cars were left flattened, while the bodies of people in everyday clothing can be seen lying in awkward positions. 

The more than 100 bodies found at the kibbutz were removed by the Zaka search and rescue group, who warned that the number of dead may yet rise. 

One survivor, Haim Jelin, told local media that Hamas fighters ‘walked around Be’eri like they owned the place.’

‘They shot indiscriminately, abducted whoever they could, burned down people’s homes so they’d have to escape through the window, where the terrorists would wait,’ he added. 

A woman called Miri Gad Mesika told local media that she and her husband were choking on thick smoke and gas fumes as they tried to hide. 

‘We soaked towels with water and covered our faces, while my husband Eli held the shelter door closed as hard as he could as the terrorists tried to break in,’ she said.

‘Moments before we jumped from the second floor, we assessed the situation of the fire and looked out for the terrorists and decided to jump. 

‘We fled to our neighbours across the street, and watched our house go up in flames before it was completely burned down. I have no idea how we survived.’