Ruthless Hamas gunmen calmly raid family fridge after shooting brave pet dog… then torch the home in Israeli kibbutz where 108 bodies were found amid slaughter

Sickening footage has emerged of the moment murderous Hamas gunmen shot dead an Israeli family’s dog before storming their home, raiding their fridge and setting their home alight amid a campaign of civilian slaughter.

The deplorable attack was just one of dozens which unfolded in the kibbutz of Be’eri, a tiny farming community of 1,000 people where Israeli security forces and rescue workers later found 108 bodies after a long hostage standoff with gunmen.

The clip, obtained from the GoPro camera attached to the helmet of one Hamas fighter, showed how the dog came bounding out of the house towards the attackers and was immediately mowed down with several bullets.

Hamas terrorists promptly invaded one house and rifled through the family’s belongings, drinking orange juice from their fridge and gorging themselves on its contents.

Then one militant drew a lighter from his pocket and took it to the wall, sparking house plants and hanging ornaments that quickly set ablaze before the heavily armed men made their exit.

Another harrowing scene from the same kibbutz showed how a second group of Hamas militants gained access to the gated compound by slaughtering civilians at near point blank range as they sat in a car.

The footage of the brutal attack was captured by cameras mounted at various points overlooking the entrance to the kibbutz, protected by a yellow metal gate.

CCTV camera footage, timestamped 5.55am on Saturday, shows two Hamas militants armed with AK-47s and dressed in camouflaged military clothing, body armour and combat boots approaching the gate that blocks a two lane road.

At first, the two fighters are seen trying to find a way through the gate, with one testing to see whether he could fit through the small gap underneath.

He soon changes his mind, and instead breaks into a small guardhouse that sits to one side of the kibbutz entrance, using his rifle to smash his way inside.

Seconds after he climbs through a window, the other combatant spots the approaching car. He hides behind a tree, while the first soldier hides inside the guardhouse, setting an ambush for the approaching vehicle.

At 5.57am, barely two minutes after the two militants were first seen inspecting the entryway to the kibbutz, the driver and passenger are seen pulling up to the gate.

Both are seemingly unaware that the two armed men are lying in wait, and the electronically-operated gate starts to open.

As the driver briefly leans out the window, seemingly to address whoever is inside the guard-house, the armed militant is seen running out from behind the tree.

Once he is feet away from the car, he mercilessly opens fire from point blank range through the passenger side window, blasting the two Israelis with several rounds.

From the other side, the Hamas militant in the guard house also opens fire, hitting the driver several times, who is seen being buffeted as he it hit by the bullets.

As the militants run through the now open gate, the footage shows the car continuing to gently roll forward into the kibbutz which has now been breached.

The victims inside the car remain motionless, covered in blood. Both are presumed to have been killed in the attack, likely among the first victims on Saturday which saw more than 1,000 Hamas gunmen stream across the border from Gaza and into Israel, where they indiscriminately shot civilians while taking others hostage.

The times of Israel reported Hamas had control of the Be’eri kibbutz for 17 hours.

A kibbutz is a settlement unique to Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture, and began as being centred around the idea of being a utopian Jewish community.

In recent decades, some have been privatised and changes have been made to the communal lifestyle, but the fundamental ideas remain the same: a voluntary society in which people live in accordance to a specific social contract.

All income generated by the Kibbutz is put into a communal pool, and is spent on running the Kibbutz to benefit all of its residents.

‘They walked around Be’eri like they owned the place,’ Haim Jelin, a survivor of the Be’eri attack and a former local politician, told Army Radio on Sunday.

‘They shot indiscriminately, abducted whoever they could, burned down people’s homes so they’d have to escape through the window, where the terrorists would wait,’ Mr Jelin added. He described the attack on the village as a ‘massacre’.

Other footage has emerged of civilians, who appear to have their hands tied behind their backs, being led down a residential street by gunman.

A second video then shows at least four bodies lying on the ground in the same location, with matching hair and clothes to those who were previously seen alive.

They are among 900 Israelis to have been killed in Hamas’ brutal attacks, which prompted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to declare war against the Palestinian militant group and begin a campaign of crushing air strikes on Gaza.

Netanyahu, who first came to power in Israel in 1996 and has served three separate terms, compared Hamas to the Islamic State group and said Israel planned to deploy ‘unprecedented force’ that would ‘reverberate for generations’.

‘We have only started striking Hamas,’ Netanyahu, 73, said in a nationally televised address late last night. ‘What we will do to our enemies in the coming days will reverberate with them for generations.

‘Hamas terrorists bound, burned and executed children. They are savages. Hamas is ISIS,’ Netanyahu concluded.

Thousands of Hamas targets have been wiped out in brutal aerial bombing campaigns, Israeli defence officials claimed, but harrowing clips circulating social media showed how the rockets and bombs also obliterated Palestinian residential blocks, killing more than 770 civilians.

Israel also ordered a ‘complete siege’ of Gaza, cutting off electricity, fuel and food for the 2.3 million Palestinians who for the most part were already living in abject poverty.

The four-day-old war has already claimed at least 1,600 lives, as Israel saw gun battles in the streets of its own towns for the first time in decades and neighbourhoods in Gaza were reduced to rubble.

In a response to the savage aerial bombardment of Gaza, Hamas warned late last night it would begin executing Israeli civilian captives.

‘Every targeting of our people without warning will be met with the execution of one of the civilian hostages,’ Hamas’ armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, said in a statement. 

Hamas militants abducted up to 150 people, including women and children, from Israeli territory and dragged them back in Gaza amid their ruthless slaughter. 

‘We have decided to put an end to this and as of now, we declare that any targeting of our people in their homes without prior warning will be regrettably faced with the execution of one the hostages of civilians we are holding,’ Abu Obaida, spokesperson for the Al-Qassam Brigades, later added in a recording released to Al Jazeera.

The IDF now is under immense pressure to get the hostages as quickly as possible.

Alexander Grinberg, of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, said that Israeli ‘strikes will first of all target Hamas command centres and troops, with fire coming from everywhere’. 

‘At the same time, the army will prepare to enter Gaza,’ he said.

Such urban fighting will force combatants into hand-to-hand combat, reduce visibility, increase the risk of traps, blur boundaries between civilians and soldiers and render armoured vehicles next to useless.

‘Everyone knows it will be long and difficult, with many losses,’ Grinberg said, although technology such as robots could work in the assaulting forces’ favour.

Former British army officer Andrew Galer, who works as an analyst at private intelligence firm Janes, said that the IDF’s fight in the Gaza Strip would be tough, as city fighting is ‘a 360-degree battlefield as the threats can be all around you.’ 

Going house-to-house to secure potentially booby-trapped buildings means bringing in bomb disposal experts with cumbersome gear like ladders, ropes and explosives – ‘possibly all while taking fire’ and in the dark, he added.

And there are ‘inherent risks’ of friendly fire given ‘the difficulties of situational awareness’, Galer said.

As Israel continued to mass troops around the Gaza Strip, Iran’s Supreme leader said ‘we kiss the hands on those who planned the attack’, amid fears the Islamic Republic provided Hamas terrorists with weapons and training for the surprise incursion.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei hailed what he called Israel’s ‘irreparable’ military and intelligence defeat after Saturday’s attack.

‘We kiss the hands of those who planned the attack on the Zionist regime,’ Khamenei said in incendiary remarks during his first televised speech since the incursion.

Khamenei, wearing a Palestinian scarf and speaking from a military academy, added: ‘This destructive earthquake (Hamas’s attack) has destroyed some critical structures (in Israel) which will not be repaired easily. 

‘The Zionist regime’s own actions are to blame for this disaster,’ he said, but insisted Iran, a key long-term ally of Hamas, was not involved in the attack on Israel.

Israel has long accused Iran’s clerical rulers of stoking violence by supplying arms to Hamas, categorised by many countries as a terrorist organisation.

And Western officials last night said Tehran had provided Hamas militants with military training and logistical help as well as tens of millions of dollars for weapons ahead of the surprise incursion.

The officials said Hamas had been planning the assault on Israel for at least a year, reports the Washington Post. 

They said that while they have no evidence that Tehran authorised or directly coordinated the attack, the incursion reflected Iran’s years-long ambition to surround Israel with paramilitary fighters armed with sophisticated weapons. 

‘If you train people on how to use weapons, you expect them to eventually use them,’ said a Western intelligence official.  

Backing the Palestinian cause has been a pillar of the Islamic Republic since the 1979 revolution and a way the Shi’ite-dominated country has fashioned itself as a leader of the Muslim world.

The top U.S. general on Monday warned Iran not to get involved in the crisis, saying he did not want the conflict to the broaden.