The Deadly Flood of Hamas Terror

 Burnt Vehicles Compound  YNet News

In southern Israel, in close proximity to the site of the Nova music festival where an  unspeakable massacre took place on October 7, a monument has been arranged  known as the Burnt Vehicles Compound. Over 800 vehicles were hauled to the field that now holds them all. These were the hundreds of vehicle blocking roads into areas of southern Israel that had been destroyed by the terrorist Hamas invaders when their drivers and passengers were confronted by terrorists who shot them to death, leaving the vehicles as a barrier. One that prevented other victims from escaping, and served as well to hinder the entry of rescuers whose arrival was geared to saving lives and rescuing survivors.

"It's actually designed to turn the human body into ash. We actually pulled out of here more than 300 bags, big bags, of ash."

"Human ash. Our brothers and sisters."

"We find ourselves, 78 years after the Holocaust, collecting ash of Jews once again."

Captain Adam Ittah, spokesman, Southern District, IDF Home Front Command

(Photo: Yaron Sharon)

The cars were meticulously searched and examined, human remains collected to enable the victims of the October 7 carnage to be buried in accord with Jewish funeral tradition. The vehicles, all 800 of them, have been arranged into a wall that forms a semicircle around a temporary memorial. Captain Ittah explained that a chemical compound was brought along by the terrorists in their dreadful invasion, enabling them to quickly set the vehicles on fire, and everything within them turned into ash.

Not far from the memorial is Kfar Aza, a hard-hit community that sits a mere eight hundred metres from the Gaza border, where less than 15 seconds is all the leeway given to access bomb shelter when air raid sirens sound, even yet, with rockets sent into Israel from Gaza. The community of Kfar Aza is gated. On that fateful day, terrorists hid in foliage close to the Kibbutz gate to ambush vehicles that pulled in. Drivers and passengers gunned down, then terrorists entered to flood the kibbutz, shooting wildly at anything that moved.

 

Members of ZAKA identification, extraction and rescue team search through the destruction in a Gaza Envelope community following the Oct. 7 attacks. (photo from ZAKA)

It is where babies were murdered while in their beds, where parents were tortured and murdered, their children forced to witness the atrocities before they too were slaughtered. It's where those members of the kibbutz who rushed to come to the aid of others who were wounded and crying out for help, were picked off by sharpshooters. And where families of kibbutz members sheltering in their safe rooms, were burned to death when the terrorists set fire to their homes.

These are not only narrations of witnesses who survived the massacres, but actual live video footage that the terrorist horde were proud to record as great achievements to be posted on social media as victory trophies, along with private security footage of the kibbutz. In Kfar Aza today, the kibbutz and its burnt-out homes sit frozen in time as a record of that horrible day in southern Israel; a deliberate effort to preserve the evidence of Hamas atrocities.

The body of a Hamas fighter lies on the ground outside a burned home in Kfar Aza, a kibbutz near the border with Gaza.  Photograph by Peter van Agtmael / Magnum