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Published 17:34 IST, October 13th 2023

Israel War/ 'Pregnant woman's belly was ripped open & fetus stabbed': Israeli Commander narrates Hamas horror

"I saw her stomach wide open, ripped open and her unborn baby stabbed still attached to the cord. She had a gunshot at the back of her head," said Yossi Landau.

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Zaka South commander narrates Hamas horror to Republic. | Image: Republic

More than thousands of people have lost their lives in Israel after suffering brutal attack by Hamas terrorists on October 7. Yossi Landau, the Commander of Zaka South, an organisation which recovers the bodies of people who suffered unnatural deaths, in an exclusive conversation with Republic TV narrated one of the spine-chilling ordeal where a woman was killed and an unborn baby was ripped out from her belly.
 
Describing the disturbing ground situation, Landau said, “It was Saturday (October 7) and a holiday when everybody was supposed to be happy with their family. At 6:30 a.m., we woke up to the sounds of a rocket attack, all over Israel and the rockets were only cover for the invasion of about 2,500 terrorists. They started invading people's houses and killing youngsters who were attending music festivals.”

A family in Israel seen hugging each other in wake of brutal Hamas attack. [Image: AP]

'What Hamas has done, I think even ISIS has never done that'

Yossi Landau added that the Hamas terrorists are dangerous than ISIS as they have committed such unimaginable crimes that even pregnant women, children and unborn babies were not spared.

The Zaka Commander told Republic, “What Hamas has done, I think even ISIS has never done that. I have seen videos and pictures of ISIS executions and these people have done horrible kinds of stuff. I cannot tell you everything that they did but I will share what I saw when I got into the house.”

He added, “I saw the pregnant lady on the floor, in blood. When I turned her over, I saw her stomach wide open, ripped open and her unborn baby stabbed still attached to the cord. She had suffered a gunshot at the back of her head.”

Yossi Landau shared the ordeal about the casualties and brutalities that are being witnessed during the rescue operation. He said that he never saw anything like this in 33 years of his career in the force. “This is brutality for no reason. They are not Arabs,  they are not Palestinians or Christians… they are monsters and I think, the Arab countries should condemn them as they kidnapped children, chopped off their heads and killed them.”

Mourners gathered around the grave in Israel. [Image: AP]

He further stated that most of the victims were shot from the back or burnt alive. There were families in one room burnt to death alive along with their pets. Landau condemned Hamas brutality, stressing that “in my religion, as we know shooting someone in the back of the head is a war crime just like burning people alive."

Updated 08:08 IST, October 14th 2023

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