Pembantaian Kfar Aza
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Pembantaian Kfar Aza | |
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Bagian dari Perang Hamas-Israel 2023 | |
Lokasi | Kfar Aza, Distrik Selatan, Israel |
Koordinat | 31°29′1″N 34°32′2″E / 31.48361°N 34.53389°E |
Tanggal | 7 Oktober 2023 |
Jenis serangan | [Penembakan massal, pembunuhan massal, pemancungan (dugaan), pemotongan, Kematian dengan cara dibakar |
Korban tewas | 52 orang dikonfirmasi meninggal; 20+ hilang[1] |
Pelaku | Hamas |
Pada tanggal 7 Oktober 2023, sekitar 70 militan Hamas menyerang Kfar Aza, sebuah kibbutz sekitar 3 kilometer (1,9 mi) dari perbatasan dengan Jalur Gaza, membantai penduduk dan menculik beberapa sandera.
Kibbutz ini memiliki 400 penduduk sebelum serangan, dan butuh dua hari bagi Pasukan Pertahanan Israel untuk merebut kembali kendali penuh atas komunitas tersebut.[2][3][4] Meskipun jumlah pasti warga Israel yang tewas belum diketahui, sebagian besar perkiraan menempatkan jumlah total warga Israel yang tewas lebih dari 100 orang, termasuk anak-anak.[5] At least 73 killed or missing victims have been confirmed so far.[1]
Serangan itu terkenal karena adanya klaim pemenggalan kepala,[2] dismemberment, and reports of immolation, though there was controversy regarding claims that babies had been decapitated.[3][6][7]
Massacre
About 70 Hamas gunmen broke through a fence gaining access to the kibbutz on the morning of 7 October 2023.[8] After entering the kibbutz, which was 3 kilometer (1,9 mi) from Gaza, the militants proceeded to massacre residents of the community.[8] The Islamist militants began their attack on the community by targeting the west side of the community—an area in the kibbutz close to Gaza where families with young children lived.[9][10] Most estimates place the total number of Israelis killed at over 100, though an exact death toll was not publicly known as of 13 October 2023.[5]
Members of the kibbutz with military training, who formed a volunteer armed guard, fought against invading militants in an attempt to defend the community.[10] All members of the kibbutz's volunteer armed guard were killed,[11] and militants broadened the attack to all four directions.[9] Invading militants burned houses and killed civilian residents.[12][13][14] Corpses of those who had lived in the community were found with their hands tied.[14]
In addition, the militants took hostages from the kibbutz,[15][16] with the Associated Press visually confirming four hostages that were abducted on 7 October.[17] The militants also took women, children and senior citizens as hostages back to Gaza.[18]
Israeli Major General Itai Veruv described the massacre as a terror attack.[15]
Prior to the massacre, the community had 400 residents. It took the Israel Defense Forces two-and-a-half days to regain full control of the community after the initial attack.[10] The paratroopers of Unit 71 led the assault to retake the community,[11] and the Duvdevan Unit had also responded to the attack.[5]
Journalists were granted access to the site on 10 October 2023.[19][15] Hamas has also released video footage of the attack.[20]
Casualties
According to BBC News, it appears that most of the victims of the massacre died in the opening hours of the attack. Hingga 10 Oktober 2023[update], soldiers were still going through the community to recover bodies.[21] Israeli soldiers in the town stated that several civilians had been beheaded.[11] Children and babies were reported to be among the killed.[2][3][4]
Allegations of beheadings
One member of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) who had responded to the site said in an interview with I24NEWS that 40 children had been killed, with some beheaded by Hamas.[22][19] CBS News later interviewed Yossi Landau, regional head of the first responder organization ZAKA, who said that both babies and minors had been beheaded alongside corpses of dismembered adults.[2] Landau later stated to Sky News that 80% of the bodies at Kfar Aza and at Be'eri showed signs of torture.[23]
A claim that a number of babies were decapitated was also made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's spokesperson, and the most high-profile claim was repeated by U.S. President Joe Biden, who claimed to have seen photographic evidence for it.[24][25] The White House later denied Biden had seen photographic images, and clarified that he was referring to media reports and statements by Netanyahu.[3][25]
The IDF stated to Insider that they would not investigate the allegation further, citing that it would be "disrespectful for the dead" to do so.[26] Netanyahu's office released photos of dead babies, saying they were killed and burned in the attack.[27] The Jerusalem Post stated that these images confirmed that babies were decapitated,[4] while NBC News stated that the claim could not be independently verified and that no photographic evidence that babies were decapitated was provided.[3] CNN reported that claims of beheading could not be confirmed.[7]
The claim that 40 babies had been decapitated gained widespread attention on social media, with over 40 million impressions on X (formerly Twitter), propagated by the Israeli website I24NEWS and the official Israel account. The claim made it to the frontpage news on almost a dozen British newspapers. NBC News stated that the claim was likely erroneous, and based on the conflation of two separate statements made by IDF soldiers.[3]
See also
References
- ^ a b "IDF: Dozens of rockets fired from Lebanon, at least nine crossed into Israeli territory". 14 October 2023 – via www.ynetnews.com.
- ^ a b c d Williams, Holly; Lyall, Erin (11 October 2023). "Israel kibbutz the scene of a Hamas "massacre," first responders say: "The depravity of it is haunting" - CBS News". CBS News. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 11 October 2023. Diakses tanggal 11 October 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f Tenbarge, Kat; Chan, Melissa (12 October 2023). "Unverified reports of '40 babies beheaded' in Israel-Hamas war inflame social media". NBC News. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 12 October 2023. Diakses tanggal 12 October 2023.
- ^ a b c Joffre, Tzvi (12 October 2023). "Photos of babies being burnt, decapitated confirmed". The Jerusalem Post. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 13 October 2023. Diakses tanggal 13 October 2023.
- ^ a b c Spencer, Richard (13 October 2023). "They came at dawn: inside the Kfar Aza kibbutz massacre". The Times.
- ^ "What we actually know about the viral report of beheaded babies in Israel". Sky News. 12 October 2023. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 11 October 2023. Diakses tanggal 12 October 2023.
- ^ a b Chance, Matthew; Greene, Richard Allen; Berlinger, Joshua (12 October 2023). "Israeli official says government cannot confirm babies were beheaded in Hamas attack". CNN (dalam bahasa Inggris). Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 12 October 2023. Diakses tanggal 12 October 2023.
- ^ a b Lubell, Maayan (10 October 2023). "Insight: How an Israeli kibbutz 'paradise' turned into hell in Hamas attack". Reuters. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 10 October 2023. Diakses tanggal 10 October 2023.
- ^ a b Pfeffer, Anshel (10 October 2023). "Bitterness and fury at the kibbutz where babies had their throats cut". The Times. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 12 October 2023. Diakses tanggal 10 October 2023.
- ^ a b c Hendrix, Steve (10 October 2023). "Scenes from a massacre: Inside an Israeli town destroyed by Hamas". The Washington Post. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 12 October 2023. Diakses tanggal 10 October 2023.
- ^ a b c Bowen, Jeremy (10 October 2023). "Inside Kfar Aza where Hamas militants killed families in their homes". BBC News. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 10 October 2023. Diakses tanggal 10 October 2023.
- ^ Hutchinson, Bill (10 October 2023). "Mom says sons snatched by Hamas while on the phone with her". ABC News. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 11 October 2023. Diakses tanggal 11 October 2023.
- ^ "Smell of death fills Israeli kibbutz where civilians were slain". France 24. Agence France-Presse. 10 October 2023. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 12 October 2023. Diakses tanggal 11 October 2023.
- ^ a b Oliphant, Roland; Vasilyeva, Nataliya (10 October 2023). "Babies killed in Hamas attacks on kibbutz as death toll passes 1,000". The Daily Telegraph. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 10 October 2023. Diakses tanggal 10 October 2023.
- ^ a b c Lubell, Maayan (10 October 2023). "Bodies of residents and militants lie in the grounds of ravaged Israeli kibbutz". Reuters (dalam bahasa Inggris). Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 10 October 2023. Diakses tanggal 10 October 2023.
- ^ Logan, Nick (10 October 2023). "Why Hamas took so many people hostage — and how that complicates Israel's response". CBC News. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 10 October 2023. Diakses tanggal 10 October 2023.
- ^ Federman, Josef; Adwan, Issam (7 October 2023). "Hamas surprise attack out of Gaza stuns Israel and leaves hundreds dead in fighting, retaliation". Associated Press. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 7 October 2023. Diakses tanggal 11 October 2023.
- ^ Logan, Nick (10 October 2023). "Why Hamas took so many people hostage — and how that complicates Israel's response". CBC News. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 10 October 2023. Diakses tanggal 10 October 2023.
- ^ a b Berman, Lazar (10 October 2023). "'At least 40 babies killed': Foreign reporters taken to massacre site in Kfar Aza". The Times of Israel. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 12 October 2023. Diakses tanggal 10 October 2023.
- ^ "Israel-Hamas War: Video shows Hamas militants attack on Kfar Aza kibbutz". Sky News. 10 October 2023. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 12 October 2023. Diakses tanggal 11 October 2023.
- ^ Emergui, Sal (10 October 2023). "Kfar Aza, el kibutz donde Hamas asesinó a 40 bebés". El Mundo (dalam bahasa Spanyol). Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 12 October 2023. Diakses tanggal 10 October 2023.
- ^ Zedek, Nicole (10 October 2023). "'It smells of death here': Surveying the atrocities committed by Hamas in Kfar Aza". i24 News. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 10 October 2023. Diakses tanggal 10 October 2023.
- ^ "Israel-Gaza war: Recovered bodies show 'bloodthirsty' gunmen 'took time over torture' - and that Hamas has changed". Sky News (dalam bahasa Inggris). Diakses tanggal 2023-10-15.
- ^ Joshi, Joy (13 October 2023). "Israel-Hamas war: How the unverified claim about beheaded babies spread — 'Same misinformation, different war'". Yahoo! News Canada.
- ^ a b Speri, Alice (11 October 2023). ""Beheaded babies" report spread wide and fast — but israel military won't confirm it". The Intercept. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 14 October 2023. Diakses tanggal 14 October 2023.
- ^ Zitser, Joshua (11 October 2023). "IDF says it won't back up its claim that Hamas decapitated babies in Israel because it is 'disrespectful for the dead'". Business Insider (dalam bahasa Inggris). Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 12 October 2023. Diakses tanggal 12 October 2023.
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