{"id":464,"date":"2023-10-25T13:36:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T17:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ptnews.org\/wpupdater2\/frontpage\/?p=464"},"modified":"2023-10-25T13:36:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T17:36:08","slug":"gaza-civilians-joined-hamas-terrorist-on-october-7-invasion-of-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ptnews.org\/wpupdater2\/frontpage\/2023\/10\/25\/gaza-civilians-joined-hamas-terrorist-on-october-7-invasion-of-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza Civilians Joined Hamas Terrorist on October 7 Invasion of Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The world speaks of the Gaza civilians as being innocent of the murderous acts of Hamas who invaded Israel on Saturday, October 7th<\/sup>. However, new evidence is mounting that demonstrates that many ordinary Gaza civilians also joined the invasion. Everyone should read the following report from World Israel News<\/em>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs Hamas terrorists carried out a highly choreographed massacre in Israel on Oct. 7, they received a source of support that amplified the horror that took place that day. A mob of ordinary Palestinians spontaneously joined in what became the deadliest pogrom against Jews since the Holocaust, according to videos, eyewitness accounts, and the Israel Defense Forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhereas the Hamas terrorists wore uniforms and carried military-grade weapons, the Gazans who followed them into the Jewish state were dressed as civilians and mostly unarmed, two officials from Israel\u2019s devastated Gaza border region said. Young men with knives, overweight dads, and at least one elderly man on crutches were among those who exploited Hamas\u2019s rampage to create a second wave of carnage that rivaled the barbarism of the professional terrorists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe IDF declined to provide details about non-Hamas Gazans\u2019s involvement in the Oct. 7 attack. But IDF spokesman Jonathan Conricus confirmed to the Washington Free Beacon that large numbers of Gazans who were not members of any terrorist group entered Israel and participated in the atrocities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018They did what you say they did,\u2019 Conricus said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe extent to which the Gazan public took part in Hamas\u2019s campaign of terror has yet to be fully understood even in Israel. But for the communities near Israel\u2019s Gaza border\u2014home to many of the country\u2019s remaining peaceniks\u2014firsthand knowledge of what their Palestinian neighbors did has already hardened into a new consensus: Coexistence is dead, and Gaza must be crushed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018The second wave of Arabs who came into the country were just as cruel as the terrorists of the first wave,\u2019 Gadi Yarkoni, the mayor of the Eshkol Regional Council, which encompasses most of the Gaza border communities, told the Free Beacon. \u2018We saw that it was not only Hamas who came to slaughter us. It was all the residents of Gaza, including people who worked in our kibbutzim.\u2019 \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYarkoni, who survived Oct. 7 in the safe room of his house in Kibbutz Nirim, estimated that 3,000 Gazans were involved in the attack, about half of them \u2018civilians.\u2019 The IDF has put the total number of terrorists at 2,500 to 3,500 but declined to specify whether that figure includes non-Hamas members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSpeaking with the Free Beacon, Yarkoni referred to gruesome footage and survivor testimonies that have not been made public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018I saw a scene where a Gazan civilian chopped off a man\u2019s head. It took him several attempts to detach the head from the body,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAccording to a video that was posted online, Gazans used a bulldozer to tear down a section of Israel\u2019s border fence, and hundreds of unarmed men and boys\u2014wearing T-shirts, baseball caps, sneakers, and flip-flops\u2014crossed into the country. They came mostly on foot but also by bicycle, scooter, and motorcycle. Someone appears to have brought a donkey. Other online videos show ordinary Gazans taking selfies on and around Israeli tanks and ransacking a military base on the border. All the while, cries of \u201cAllahu Akbar\u201d rang out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe mob soon arrived in nearby Israeli communities that Hamas was already terrorizing. Security footage and Hamas videos from Be\u2019eri, Nir Oz, and other kibbutzim capture dozens of ordinary-looking Gazans looting and taking part in killings and kidnappings, including of women and children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSome of these people extorted their victims. Jacqueline Glicksman, an 81-year-old resident of Kibbutz Ein HaShlosha, told the Free Beacon that three teenage boys from Gaza broke through the window of her safe room and demanded money. She told them she had none, and minutes later, her house was burned down. Glicksman somehow managed to jump out of the broken window in her pajamas and run to safety. But her friend, Silvia Mirensky, 80, was killed in an arson attack next door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMeanwhile, in the streets of Gaza, crowds greeted the returning kidnappers as conquering heroes, online videos show. Some Gazans taunted the Israeli hostages and defiled the dead as they were paraded through the streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRaz Cohen, a 24-year-old former Israeli commando, saw both Hamas terrorists and ordinary Gazans kill and rape revelers at the Nova music festival in Re\u2019im, where at least 260 people were slaughtered. After escaping the Hamas terrorists, Cohen hid in a bush with a group of friends for almost seven hours. He watched as a gang of Gazan civilians\u2014men wearing Adidas and armed only with knives and axes\u2014raped and murdered a young Jewish woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018While they were raping and killing, they always laughed. I can\u2019t forget how they laughed,\u201d Cohen told the Free Beacon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018Several members of Cohen\u2019s group later ran from the bush and were caught by the same gang of Gazans. He said he heard his friends\u2019 screams as they were tortured and stabbed to death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018You know when you hear the screams of someone who is dying,\u2019 said Cohen, who was eventually rescued by Israeli soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA young couple who were abducted at the Nova festival also appear to have been victims of ordinary Gazans. Footage shows [they] were taken away by a group of about a dozen young men, some of them teenagers. As Or\u2019s brother told Israel\u2019s Channel 99, the kidnappers did not look to be armed. Minutes before [one of them] was captured, he texted friends that 20 \u201cpeople\u201d were hunting down and lynching Jews, according to screenshots published by Israel\u2019s Ynet news site. \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDaniel Meir, Nirim\u2019s security chief, told the Free Beacon that dozens of ordinary Gazans attacked his kibbutz on Oct. 7 along with about 50 Hamas terrorists. During an hour-long gunfight with the invaders, he climbed to the top of a grain tower, where he was able to survey the battlefield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMeir, echoing Yarkoni, said the differences between the Hamas terrorists and the other Gazans were easy to see: The Hamas terrorists wore green camouflage or black uniforms and were armed with automatic rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, and hand grenades. The ordinary Gazans wore everyday clothing and came unarmed or carrying only knives, although some appeared to have taken firearms from fallen Israelis or Hamas terrorists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018There was \u2018complete cooperation\u2019 between the two groups, Meir said, with Hamas doing most of the fighting and the ordinary Gazans focused on looting and kidnapping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe civilians went into houses and turned them upside down. They took phones, computers, jewelry, whatever they could find,\u201d\u2019 he recalled. \u2018From what I know, they also took most of the hostages.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMeir, along with three fellow members of his security team and a passing IDF helicopter, improbably managed to fend off the terrorists until soldiers arrived in Nirim around 1 p.m. Five members of the kibbutz were killed and five are missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEven though Nirim suffered less than some of its neighbors, Meir said the attack\u2014and particularly the role of ordinary Gazans\u2014shattered his community\u2019s faith in coexistence. Many of the kibbutzniks were longtime peace activists, and there was widespread support among them for a program that allowed thousands of Gazans to work in Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNow, the IDF has reportedly detained a few thousand Gazan guest workers and is investigating whether they helped Hamas plan the Oct. 7 attack. Several community members received text messages from Gazan workers, according to Yarkoni, warning their former employers that they were coming to kill them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018I am a man of peace,\u2019 Meir said. \u2018I wanted us to live in peace\u2014that we could drive to the ocean over there [in Gaza] and that we could do groceries in Rafah or Khan Yunis [areas in Gaza]. I think even most right-wing Israelis at the end of the day pray for peace. The desire for peace is ingrained in all of us.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018But today we understand that [the Palestinians] are educated differently. They are educated for something else. Just as we crave peace, they crave jihad,\u2019 he said. \u2018They are raising monsters. And it is impossible to make peace with monsters.\u2019 (Reported by World Israel News<\/em><\/a>, October 25, 2023)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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