In a recent interview, Israeli President Isaac Herzog revealed that the Israeli army recovered “instruction guides” on how to torture and kidnap civilians from the bodies of dead Hamas terrorists.
Herzog made the revelation while explaining the kind of “extremely cruel and inhumane enemy” his country is fighting against.
While he was speaking with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, Herzog also described the horrors he witnessed while walking through Kibbutz Be’eri near the Gaza Strip, where ten percent of its members were murdered by Hamas terrorists.
"My nation is bleeding. My nation is in pain."
Israeli President Isaac Herzog speaks with CNN's @wolfblitzer about what he saw when he visited kibbutz Be'eri after it was attacked by Hamas terrorists. Follow live coverage: https://t.co/GJyT3rzoLe pic.twitter.com/Y0SH46Uenf
— CNN (@CNN) October 15, 2023
Herzog’s comments come a few days after it was revealed that Hamas terrorists intentionally targeted schools and youth centers during their attack on Israel on October 7.
Here’s a portion of the Fox News article:
“I saw the skull of a woman, in which house I visited, the house totally destroyed, totally destroyed, and they just cut her head off,” Herzog said. “I saw a pool of blood in that house where the picture of the children is hanging, and the grandchildren are hanging on the wall with the knives and the hatchets which they went in. I saw the most horrific scenes possible.”
This was just one example of Hamas’s cruelty, he said, as this community had advocated for peace and sent financial help to their Palestinian neighbors in Gaza for years before they were attacked.
Herzog also shared a torture and kidnapping manual allegedly found on the body of a terrorist.
“This was found on the body of one of the terrorists. This is a booklet. Okay?” he said while holding up a pamphlet emblazoned with the image of a Hamas terrorist.
“This booklet is an instruction guide on how to go into a civilian premises, into a kibbutz, a city, a moshav, how to break in, and first thing what do you do when you find the citizens? You torture them. This is the booklet. It says exactly how to torture them, how to abduct them, and how to kidnap them,” he explained.
“So therefore the story is not Israel versus Palestinians or Judaism versus Islam, God forbid, the story is about humanity. Are we with good or we with evil? That’s where humanity should stand,” he urged.
Despite Herzog’s revelation, there are still some people, including Democratic politicians, who have criticized Israel’s decision to defend itself by going on the offensive against the terrorists.
At least 1,400 Israeli civilians and soldiers and 30 Americans have been killed since the Hamas attack. But it won’t deter Israel from destroying Hamas.
Netanyahu proclaims an "Axis of Evil" that the entire world must unite to defeat, just as it united to defeat the Nazis. Which would seem to indicate Israel is preparing for a war not just against Hamas, but also Iran, and expects USA/Europe to join this "battle of civilization" pic.twitter.com/R4E1Eydm49
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) October 17, 2023
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged to defeat Hamas and wipe them “off the face of the Earth” in response to the attack.
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