On 7 October, Israeli forces fired multiple tank shells at a home in Kibbutz Be’eri, killing most of the dozen captive civilians there, including two adolescent Israeli children.
All of their Palestinian captors, bar one, who’d surrendered, were also killed. Two other Israelis survived to tell the story of how Israel’s military killed its own civilians that day.
The head of Israel’s national rescue unit then lied to the world’s press about it, claiming that “eight babies” had been executed by Hamas at the home.
Colonel Golan Vach claimed that the Palestinian fighters had murdered the Israelis, when in fact his own “rescue” forces had been responsible.
“They were concentrated there and they killed them and they burned them,” Vach claimed of the nonexistent dead babies. No bodies of babies from the home were ever produced. …..more
