Hamas promised its terrorists 10,000 dollars and an apartment for each kidnapped person, better if they were “old women and children”

2023-10-24 08:00:04

Israel has made public the video of the interrogations of several of the Hamas terrorists who broke into the south of the country last day the seventh in which, questioned by several security agents, they recount details of what they and their companions did and also part of the general rules, so to speak, with which they left Gaza .

One of them was that the kidnappings were not, as was evident from the large number of hostages who have been taken to Gaza, an improvised decision: “Anyone who kidnaps a hostage and takes him to Gaza receives a payment of $10,000 and an apartment”says one of the terrorists. Furthermore, they clarify that the “instructions” they had received were “kidnapping old women and children”, as well as “clear the houses and take as many prisoners as possible.”

The video summarizes the most significant moments of six interrogation sessions of law enforcement agents. Israel Security Authority (ISA) and the Police. Among them there are statements of appalling cruelty and in addition common conclusions are drawn that usually arise, among them that the explicit instructions they had received were murder and kidnap civilians, including elderly women and children.

“It doesn’t matter if they were military or civilian”

One of the terrorists says that their “mission” was to go to an army post and then to a kibbutz and “be there a day or two”. The orders regarding civilians were to “kill the men and capture the women, the elderly and children”, ensuring that in the treatment they were to give them “It didn’t matter if they were military or civilian”.

Another how they entered a house in the kibbutz of Be’eri: “Two entered a house, the door was closed but they shot it, we heard voices inside and two more entered,” says the handcuffed but extraordinarily calm terrorist. “There was a man lying on the floor, I don’t know if he was dead, he had blood around him, he explains. “Inside there was an injured man and I think a whole family, dressed in normal clothes,” he says, referring to the fact that they were dressed of civilians.

He also tells how that wounded man was in the house, two women and “a boy and a girl” and explains how some of his companions took an older woman and he himself used that family as human shields.

Another explains how some of his colleagues took “a young girl, 15 or 16 years old”, they took “a selfie with her” and they argued about whether to shoot her or kidnap her, finally taking her away on a motorcycle. Furthermore, she explains that “her body was on the ground, I shot her and the commander yelled at me because she was wasting a bullet on a corpse.”