'Step on their heads and do what you like': Fox News journalist Trey Yingst reveals instructions 'Hamas gave terrorists ahead of Israel massacre' and says others were too vile to share
Commanders told them to put their faith aside and to step on the heads of civilians, to behead them and do whatever they felt like.
By Rachel Bowman
Daily Mail
Oct 23, 2023
Hamas commanders told terrorists to step on Israelis' heads and decapitate them during their invasion earlier this month, a shaken Fox News reporter says.
Trey Yingst read out details from an interrogation of an unidentified Hamas fighter in the wake of the October 7 massacre - and said some details were simply too disturbing to repeat, or even describe.
'He describes what Hamas commanders told them to do. He says that commanders said they could do whatever they felt like doing and that this was a suicide mission, telling them they should not plan on coming back,' said Yingst.
'He says commanders told them to step on the heads of civilians, to behead them and do whatever they felt like.'
Yingst declined to detail other things said during the interrogation, believing them simply too disturbing to repeat on air.
Fox New foreign correspondent Trey Yingst described a video showing an Israeli interrogation of a Hamas terrorist. Yingst said some of the details are too vile to share
'This interrogator asks him about Islam. And he acknowledges that in the religion, you are told not to kill women, children, and elderly people,' he said.
Yingst said the terrorist, who appeared to be in his 20s, was captured Alumim, a kibbutz on the border with Gaza.
Hamas took hundreds of women, children and the elderly hostage during their horrific attack.
Footage shows the kidnapping of Noa Argamani, a 26-year-old student, who was seen begging for her life on the back of a Hamas terrorist's motorcycle.
She screamed 'Don't kill me! No, no, no' – but the gunman speeds off. Noa hasn't been seen since.
Yingst said the video revealed the Hamas terrorist were given specific coordinated plans to come into Israel and inflict as much damage as possible.
'He talks about a Telegram group that Hamas fighters had and they were communicating as the massacre took place, sending videos as they got them, as they were killing civilians in their homes,' he said.
Israel's officials released a 45-minute-long compilation of unedited footage showing the Hamas terror.
Part of it shows a Hamas gunman using a Jewish woman's phone to call his family to brag about 'killing 10 Jews.'
Noa Argamani (left), a 26-year-old student, was seen begging for her life while being kidnapped by Hamas
Other footage captured from the bodycam of another Hamas gunman shows him sadistically throwing a grenade at a father and his two sons wearing pajamas as they cower in their hiding place.
The video showed a Hamas gunman, brandishing his AK-47 assault rifle, ordering a pair of Israelis driving slowly along the road to stop their car.
Without giving the driver a second to comply, the gunman immediately starts blasting bullets into the vehicle from mere feet away, and the passengers can be seen recoiling from the rounds in the cabin as the car rolls past.
Horrifying photos have been released showing pools of blood and teddy bears riddled with bullet holes at an Israeli nursery after scores of innocents were killed in a massacre.
At Kfar Aza kibbutz, photos show the devastating scene where two parents died protecting their their 10-month-old twins.
Inside the home of Itay and Hadar Berdichevsky, who were murdered by Hamas terrorists, show a bloody scene in disarray.
A soldier stands at the scene where Itay and Hadar Berdichevsky died trying to save the lives of their 10-month-old twins
Amid the sheer destruction in Be'eri kibbutz, the community's nursery was found to have pools of blood as Hamas terrorists tore through
More than 1,400 Israelis have died, mostly civilians, since the initial Hamas attack.
Hamas said it has some 200 hostages and that 50 more are held by other armed groups in the enclave.
The group claimed more than 20 hostages have been killed by Israeli air strikes, but has not given any further details.
Two hostages, 85-year-old Yochved Lifshitz and Nurit Koper, 79, have been released on Monday.
An American mother and daughter, Judith Tai Raanan, 59, and Natalie Shoshana Raanan, 17, were released last week.
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The video Israel claims shows a Hamas terrorist admitting gunmen were ordered to 'behead' and 'do whatever you want' with victims
We are choosing NOT to publish the video for ethical reasons, but believe it is in the public interest to report its contents
By Sam Greenhill
The Hamas captive (pictured) speaks calmly and clearly. His commanders, he says, ordered their fighters to 'behead' women, children and the elderly
The Hamas captive speaks calmly and clearly. His commanders, he says, ordered their fighters to 'behead' women, children and the elderly.
They were like 'animals' and instructed the invaders that, after murdering women, they should abuse their bodies, he says.
Even after two weeks of unremittingly sickening stories that have emerged since the October 7 atrocity, these are gruesome and incendiary claims, and they come amid a huge backlash against allegations that Hamas beheaded victims.
If what this man is saying is true, Hamas commanders specifically demanded beheadings as the killers prepared for their onslaught of Israeli villages.
The man, we are told, is a Hamas captive, and a video showing parts of his interrogation has been released by the Israeli military.
It is impossible to verify the circumstances of the video or the identity of the man being filmed. I have reviewed it several times after it was given to me by the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF). The Mail commissioned its own translation of the words he is speaking in Arabic.
The captive, dressed in a white cloth jumpsuit and sitting across from an Israeli interrogator, is said by the IDF to be a 24-year-old member of the Hamas terror squad that stormed Israeli villages on October 7. He was 'an engineer and soldier' in the Hamas 'ground forces'.
Unlike fellow fanatics who died as self-deluded 'martyrs' when they were shot by Israeli security forces, it would appear he either allowed himself to be captured or was incompetent in his escape.
The IDF told me he is from Hamas's Zaiton battalion and was captured on the day of the massacres at the gates to the Alumim kibbutz, close to the Gaza border.
In the video, the young man speaks in a matter-of-fact voice, neither raised nor whispered, and answers questions put to him by his unseen interrogators in a room with wooden cupboards.
Asked what his mission was, he replies: 'To kill. Women, children, everyone, anyone who was in the house.'
Even after two weeks of unremittingly sickening stories that have emerged since the October 7 atrocity, these are gruesome and incendiary claims, and they come amid a huge backlash against allegations that Hamas beheaded victims (pictured: Israeli soldiers carrying a coffin)
If this is true, it is the first indication that Hamas terrorists actively sought to decapitate victims (pictured: Israeli victims being buried)
He says that in Gaza, he had been taught in mosques to respect women and children, but it was 'different' in the Hamas 'army'.
'In the army they tell us to kill, massacre them everywhere,' he says. 'Women and children and so on. In the religion, they say it is forbidden to kill children, women, the elderly. In the army, the commander will tell you, stomp on their heads, behead them, do whatever you want with them.'
If this is true, it is the first indication that Hamas terrorists actively sought to decapitate victims. It has been suggested that headless bodies found by rescue workers might have been decapitated by blasts from the grenades terrorists were hurling into homes, rather than being deliberately beheaded.
It is obvious, therefore, why the Israeli military wants the startling claims made in this video to be public on the all-important information battlefield.
Equally, there is no doubt that Israel's enemies will say the video is just propaganda.
There is more. The interrogator asks the man about the comparison Israel has been making between Hamas and the Islamic State terror group.
Pictured: a damaged building in the Be'eri kibbutz after the Hamas attack on October 7
Pictured: Hamas gunmen entering the Be'eri kibbutz where more than 100 people were killed
The captive appears to agree, saying: 'ISIS burns, beheads and butchers…Hamas became ISIS.'
He says that Hamas commanders sent fighters on suicide missions, telling them: 'You're going to go in, not come back.' He says they are 'inhuman', and became 'animals', and adds: 'It's things a person doesn't do. Beheading people. Having sex with dead bodies – meaning the body of a dead young woman.'
'Things like that happened?' the inquisitor asks.
'Yes,' he says, nodding.
The face of the captive is obscured. It cannot be known why he seems to be speaking so freely. He certainly appears to be talking willingly. But it is impossible to be sure of the circumstances. He has been held prisoner by Israel, and he does not have a lawyer present.
The three-minute video is just a fraction of what must have been a lengthy interview, and we have been given only a compilation of selected clips.
An IDF spokesman told me the man had been detained with an 'operational phone' that contained just five contacts, a navigation app and the Telegram messaging app.
The phone is said to have contained videos of Hamas terrorists murdering victims that had been livestreamed from other villages.
The location of the man in this video is unknown, with the IDF saying only that he is being held in a secure facility in Israel and being questioned by IDF interrogators.
The Geneva Convention states that governments must protect prisoners of war from 'insults and public curiosity', which includes videos of them being interrogated. Israel is adamant that Hamas terrorists are not prisoners of war and the Geneva Convention does not apply.
On the morning of October 7, there was no war, they said, there was a horrific terror attack. And while Israel's prime minister later declared his nation was 'at war', at the time of the attack, most of the perpetrators were either shot dead or detained, with the detainees being subjected to interviews to find out what they know.
On the morning of October 7, there was no war, they said, there was a horrific terror attack
And while Israel's prime minister (pictured during a meeting with US president Joe Biden) later declared his nation was 'at war', at the time of the attack, most of the perpetrators were either shot dead or detained, with the detainees being subjected to interviews to find out what they know
Israel is still trying to rescue more than 200 hostages snatched by Hamas and taken to Gaza, and any snippet of information could be a vital clue as to their whereabouts.
If Israel is criticised for releasing a prisoner video, it should be said that several of the hostages have already been paraded on video by Hamas, some looking terrified.
Noa Argamani, 26, who was snatched at the Supernova desert party, was filmed on a motorcycle behind her Hamas captor begging for her life, screaming 'Don't kill me!' French-Israeli Mia Schem, 21, was shown on video in Hamas detention with 'fear written all over her face', her anguished family said.
And a defenceless 85-year-old grandmother, Yaffa Adar, was filmed being driven on a golf buggy into the Palestinian enclave. While the claims in the captive's video cannot be directly verified, after the massacres numerous reports emerged of dead women being stripped naked with signs of possible sexual abuse.
And confirmation that victims were found without heads has come from numerous sources, including Israel's most senior pathologists tasked with identifying them.
Yesterday the Israeli authorities hit back in dramatic style at the doubters who are spreading 'Holocaust denial-like' theories. In a bid to counter the sceptics bleating about 'fake news', they staged what must be the most macabre cinematic event in history.
Only journalists were allowed into the 45-minute screening of unedited footage collected from the head-cams and smartphones of Hamas death squads. Many were in tears at the screening in a military complex in Tel Aviv.
The footage included clear recordings of civilians being shot, stabbed, tortured and burned. Corpses were arranged for all to see – bound, gagged and riddled with bullet holes.
In one clip, a Hamas terrorist throws a grenade at a father and his son. The blast kills the father, who pitches forward on to the turf, while the young boy is covered in his blood.
The child is dragged inside and forced to sit next to his brother, whose eye is a bloody mess after being subjected to horrific torture. One of the boys sobs: 'Why am I alive?' as the ruthless terrorists stand over the body of his father.
Another dark chunk of footage showed the headless corpses of IDF soldiers splayed in the street.Introducing the grim screening, government spokesman Eylon Levy said: 'The IDF has been collecting footage from bodycams taken by Hamas death squads as they rampaged through the communities in southern Israel, butchering everyone in sight.
'I can't believe I'm saying this – as we work to defeat the terror organisation, we are witnessing a Holocaust denial-like phenomenon evolving in real time as people are casting doubt on the magnitude of the atrocities Hamas committed against our people, and in fact recorded, in order to glorify this violence.'
On Sunday, Israeli president Isaac Herzog said manuals seized from the bodies of Hamas killers contained instructions on how to make chemical weapons. He said they were 'official Al Qaeda material' which showed how to build a weapon with cyanide.
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