A baby's cries lured people to slaughter

Gazans massacred people who did more to help them than all the rioters worldwide

Oct 08, 2025

Imagine being so deeply committed to building bridges and peace that you choose to live near the Israel-Gaza border. You do whatever you can to help the people on the other side. You find ways to build connections, despite the grip that the death cult Harakat al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyyah (known by the acronym “Hamas”) has over everyone’s lives. You don’t have much, but you send all you can.

Then, Gazans invade to massacre, rape, and kidnap the members of your small community. And across the world, people celebrate — calling you the villain. This is life in Kfar Aza, which was a beautiful kibbutz in southern Israel. In this episode, I bring you there.

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“We were really naive,” says Ronit Ifergan, a filmmaker who led the group I was with on a tour of the destroyed kibbutz. October 7, 2023, was the date of an annual kite festival. Adults and kids worked to create very high kites in hopes of sending signals of positivity and support to people in Gaza. The family that led the effort “were really peacemakers,” she says. “And they killed all of them — the father, the mother, the three children.”

There had been attacks in the area in the past, of course. Kibbutz residents had safe rooms and weapons nearby. But in this case, hundreds of Palestinian terrorists came in. They had mapped out the kibbutzim in advance. When people went into the safe rooms, the terrorists set fire to them so that people would have to leave. Then they killed them.

That’s not the only way they got people to come out of hiding. These Islamist terrorists went around shooting people, spraying bullets everywhere. The entire place is riddled with big bullet holes. And they used a baby after killing its parents.

“They saw the baby crying, and they said, oh, this is good attraction for us,” Ronit explained. People heard the baby’s screams and wanted to help, so they headed toward the baby despite the dangers. “They shot them. This is what they did for hours.” The rampage lasted 22 hours, during which the baby had nothing to eat or drink, and no help.

Filmmaker Yahav Winner’s work was about compassion for people of Gaza, as evidenced by his movie The Boy. When the terrorists came to kill him and his family, he knew they couldn’t all survive. He motioned for his disabled wife to get their sleeping daughter to safety, while he went out and held them off, knowing he would be killed.

These terrorists were not necessarily officially with Hamas. These are what the media calls Gazan “civilians.” They came in that day as well, and carried out horrific acts. Because in Gaza, people are raised to believe that doing this is a good thing.

Hear a terrorist’s proud call to his parents on 10/7, boasting that he killed Jews; both parents get on the phone and cry with pride and joy.

A bunch of people were also kidnapped from this kibbutz. Some were killed. Some were released in exchanges, in which Israel had to give up terrorists. Among those released was Amit Soussana, who had bravely tried to fight off her attackers. She speaks openly about the sexual assaults she endured.

In this episode, I discuss how Yazidi women have been subjected to mass rape by Islamists as well. One received a Nobel Peace Prize for speaking out. But the same groups that extol her won’t even listen to Israeli women.

Yesterday, around the world, people took part in rallies that glorified October 7. It’s been happening for two years. These folks have been radicalized — in large part by decades of lying in the media.

But unlike them, the people of Kfar Aza and others in southern Israel have actually tried to help Gaza — a place that’s been gifted tens of billions of dollars over the years, and keeps spending it on terror and weapons instead of building a society.

There’s a massive cognitive dissonance between reality and the imaginary one the world’s antisemitic rioters believe in. The rise of people like New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani (whose statement on the anniversary says it all) and the vile media darling Hasan Piker prove it: left-wing radicalization is one of the most destructive forces of our time.

The best tool we have to fight back is the truth. If you believe this, please share this post with someone you know needs to see the reality of Kfar Aza.

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