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<\/p>\nIn a shocking video posted online, a young girl was seen holding an ak47 and handgun surrounded by celebrating Palestinians.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the video reportedly filmed in the West Bank, a proud father lifted his child onto his shoulders.<\/p>\n
The young girl was seen waving both an assault rifle and a handgun.<\/p>\n
In another video, men from the West Bank were captured singing and raising assault rifles into the air.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There is also footage of women from Gaza, wearing headscarves, lifting a rifle above their heads while shouting.<\/p>\n
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Reports, though unconfirmed, suggested that the rifle might have been obtained from a deceased Israel Defense Force (IDF) soldier.<\/p>\n
Distressing images from Israel depict civilians grieving over their loved ones’ bodies, with at least 100 Israelis killed, the country’s rescue agency has said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But at least 232 people in the Gaza Strip have been killed and at least 1,700 wounded in Israeli strikes, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hamas fighters took an unknown number of civilians and soldiers captive in Gaza in harrowing scenes posted on social media videos.<\/p>\n
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Graphic photographs also reveal the lifeless bodies of Israelis along roadsides and beneath bus shelters, with the walls and ground stained red with their blood.<\/p>\n
Palestinian officials say that retaliatory strikes carried out by Israel following the Hamas assault have killed 198 people and injured close to 1,610 others.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201cThis was always the nightmare. We told ourselves that one day, the terrorists will come inside here,\u201d said Jehan Berman, a 42-year-old in the small community of Avshalom near Gaza.<\/p>\n
It took eight hours, he said, for the Israeli military to arrive to his kibbutz and start fending off the Hamas fighters.<\/p>\n
Berman, who suffers from multiple wounds and disabilities inflicted by the past four wars between Israel and Hamas over the years, said Israeli authorities notified him that Hamas kidnapped his 75-year-old mother-in-law, along with several friends in their 30s and their small children.<\/p>\n
The last time he heard from his mother-in-law was 10:30am, he said, when she called him, panicked and distraught, to say that Hamas militants had shot and killed her husband.<\/p>\n