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Why Are We Still Surprised by the Hamas Executions in Gaza?
(Ynet News) Amihai Attali - In the videos emerging from Gaza, a man being beaten on his legs with a hoe cries and begs for mercy, yet his attacker keeps swinging until both legs are beyond repair. No doctor or prosthetic will ever make him walk again. This is Gazan culture; these are the values. Why should anyone be surprised? On Oct. 7, they committed far worse atrocities against us - cheering as they shot a teenage girl, letting her bleed to death before her parents and siblings, and broadcasting the scene live on Facebook to their jubilant brothers in Gaza. They carried out horrific sexual assaults on young women, then murdered them. Alongside the systematic limb-breaking, there's now the execution genre. Armed Hamas militants are seen dragging a group of condemned men. Even more chilling are the dozens, maybe hundreds, of civilians forming a circle around the scene. At least half the crowd are children and teenagers. They cheer as the gunmen force the victims to their knees, and when each is executed with a bullet to the back of the head, the excitement erupts into ecstasy. Hundreds of thousands of Gaza civilians celebrated live as their sons and brothers massacred Israelis on Oct. 7. They rejoiced at the sight of slaughtered children. Even those Gazans who do not belong to Hamas revel in violence - especially against Jews, but also against their own. Gazans do not fear blood or death. They are unafraid to kill and unafraid to die. Gazans bring their children to the town square to watch, to smell, and to hear death - to enjoy the sight of a bullet fired into another person's skull, often someone from a rival clan. The other side lives by a completely different code - of good and evil, of life and death, of right and wrong, of how to raise their children. The writer is Knesset correspondent for Yediot Ahronot.