Jerusalem (AFP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday showed visiting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken horrific pictures of babies he said were killed by Hamas militants in Israel over the weekend.
Modified: 12/10/2023 - 21:23
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The pictures were posted by the prime minister's office on X, formerly Twitter. One picture showed a dead baby in a body bag while the other showed the charred remains of another infant.
Israel is reeling under a deadly attack that was carried out by Hamas fighters on Saturday morning in which at least 1,200 people, most of them civilians, were killed in Israel and around 150 hostages abducted to Gaza.
In response, the Israeli military has launched a blistering aerial and artillery bombardment that has killed more than 1,400 people in the Gaza Strip, most of them civilians.
Blinken described to reporters what he saw in the photographs shown to him by Netanyahu: "A baby -- an infant -- riddled with bullets. Soldiers beheaded, young people burnt alive in their cars.
"For any human being to see this, it's really beyond almost anything that we can comprehend and digest," Blinken said.
"Images are worth a thousand words. These images, maybe worth a million.
"The world is seeing new evidence of depravity and the inhumanity of Hamas -- depravity and inhumanity directed at babies, at small children, at young adults, at elderly people, at people with disabilities.
"At a basic human level, how anyone cannot be revolted...
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