(Washington Free Beacon) Andrew Tobin - Eran Smilansky, 28, watched Gazan children go from house to house at Kibbutz Nir Oz on Oct. 7. The boys laughed as Hamas gunmen shot or dragged away Israeli families. "They were like young, young kids...laughing with their friends and looking very calm." Survivors of the Nir Oz massacre said they witnessed boys and women from Gaza looting the kibbutz, helping the armed terrorists, and apparently enjoying themselves. The youngest children were around 10 years old. One of the survivors provided photographs of some of the women and children he saw. Eyal Barad, an engineer, had a rare view of the outside world thanks to a camera he had recently set up. He said he saw at least a dozen children, who were between the ages of 10 and 15, and 30 women from Gaza. At one point, Barad saw a woman run up to an armed terrorist and point him toward a house. "I'm guessing she saw people she wanted him to go kill or kidnap." "I can say with 100% certainty that [the women and kids] were not just innocent bystanders or looters. They were part of the massacre." Raziel Tamil, 26, had fled the Nova music festival in Re'im and was hiding in a citrus grove. He said he saw Hamas commandos holding a group of Israelis at gunpoint. Several children, ages about 6 to 10, then emerged from a pickup truck wearing Hamas outfits. Tamil said the commandos gave some of the children rifles and directed them to execute hostages, which they did.
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