Just a couple of hours after Israeli troops secured the Kfar Aza kibbutz from Hamas militants, Major General Itai Veruv mirrored on what he noticed. Although he has “the skills” to organize for this form of state of affairs from his a few years of expertise, he had by no means imagined something like this might occur.
“I’ve never seen anything like this in my career, never in 40 years of service, this is something I never imagined,” he instructed CNN on Tuesday.
Veruv could not affirm how many individuals had been killed within the assault however mentioned his troopers spent “about 48 hours” preventing “waves and waves of terrorists” on roads and in neighbouring communities.
Veruv mentioned he began preventing Hamas militants within the Yakhini moshav (group) on Saturday, shifting then “from battle to battle”, on the highway to Sderot, earlier than becoming a member of the Be’eri kibbutz on Monday night.
In Be’eri, he mentioned he noticed that “some people came out with their children and [Hamas attackers] killed them.”
“They killed babies in front of their parents and then killed the parents,” he mentioned.
“They killed parents and we found babies between the dogs and their families killed before him.”
Thinking about what he noticed in Kfar Aza kibbutz, only a few miles from Be’eri, he mentioned, “I have heard during my childhood about the pogroms in Europe, the Holocaust, of course”.
“All my family came from Europe, they are survivors. But I never thought I would see in my eyes pictures and things like that,” he mentioned.
Yet, Veruv mentioned it was “not a time for feelings.”
“Now is time for the mission and to be very effective and very strong,” he mentioned.
“Maybe later, we will take time to think about ourself and our soul. Now, I only want to fight in defence and attack.”
Source: www.9news.com.au
