I WATCHED horror-struck, welling up with tears, as a terrorist killed a dad in front of his sons — and as Hamas fiends beheaded a worker with a spade.
I was among a group of journalists invited to a showing of a 43-minute video documenting the violence inflicted by Hamas terrorists on the people of southern Israel on October 7.
By the end of the film — using footage taken from the killers’ GoPro cameras, dash-cams, mobiles of victims and home security cameras — our gathering of ashen-faced writers had seen 138 corpses.
But that represented less than ten per cent of the total of more than 1,400 victims — while 240 were also kidnapped.
In perhaps the most harrowing scene, a dad and his two sons — around nine and 11 — try to flee to safety in another kibbutz.
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All in boxer shorts, they appeared to have been woken by the attack on a Saturday morning during a Jewish holiday.
The father carried his younger son, while the other ran to a shower block.
They were pursued by two terrorists, with one hurling a smoke grenade before killing the dad.
As a father of two, I will struggle to forget the unimaginable scene of his two sons cowering in terror. One wailed: “Why am I still alive?”
We saw victims slain in a kindergarten and charred corpses of more than a dozen babies.
One young boy lay dead in Mickey Mouse pyjamas while a girl, whose face had been caved in, was in a Tupac T-shirt.
One kibbutz victim was a Thai foreign worker in a football shirt.
A group of terrorists recorded the barbaric scenes as they hacked his head with a spade.
The striking thing was the joy of the Hamas attackers — and their obvious pride in what they had done.
An Israeli source said many appear to have been using drugs and a mound of what looked like cocaine was found on one Toyota truck.
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Israel’s UK ambassador Tzipi Hotovely said: “It is our duty to show this to the world.
“The only way to negotiate with Hamas is about the colour of the flowers on your grave — and we will not do that.”
