Israel releases horrifying pics showing charred bodies of babies killed by Hamas

12 October 2023 , 16:28

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Israel has shared horrifying images from the frontline, where babies have died in the violence

Israel has released disturbing and devastating images of the violence inflicted by Hamas, which include crime scenes where babies were killed.

One particularly graphic photo, which The Mirror has decided not to show, depicts the charred remains of an infant. Others show a nursery and a child's bed surrounded by toys both smeared in blood.

Several pictures have showed body bags being carried from destroyed homes - including some which are child-sized. Another shows Israeli Defence Force (IDF) soldiers in distress in a home where challah bread still sits on a kitchen table.

The images taken in the Kfar Aza kibbutz - near to the border- have been verified by the Jerusalem Post and have been shown to US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on his visit to Israel as violence on both sides escalates following Hamas strikes at the weekend. So far, 1,300 people have been killed, including 800 Israelis and 500 Palestinians.

One incredibly distressing picture shows blood smeared across a nursery

Kfar Aza is among the first settlements to have been targeted by Hamas in the early hours of Saturday morning. The attacks have since prompted a brutal retaliation from the Israeli side, which is expected to further escalate.

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Thursday marked the sixth day of Israeli strikes on Gaza, with flyers dropped across Beit Lahia in the Gaza Strip calling on citizens to leave their homes and find refuge. The leaflets read: "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."

Soldiers crying at the sight of a family dining table on which there is still Challah bread from Friday's Kiddush (Polaris / eyevine)

Asked by reporters about the recent images, Anthony Blinken said that what they showed was “beyond what anyone would want to imagine. “Babies riddled with bullets, young people burned alive... It's simply depravity in the worst imaginable way,” the Secretary of State said.

Asked about the situation in Gaza, where images have also showed children's body bags lined up outside a hospital, he repeated a line from President Joe Biden from a speech earlier this week. "Hamas continues to use civilians as human shields", Blinken said, stressing the perspective that Hamas had been intentionally harming civilians.

He added he had spoken to Israeli officials about options to provide civilians safe passage who want to get out of Gaza.

Susie Beever