[1/5] An aerial view shows damage caused following a mass infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip, in Kibbutz Beeri in southern Israel, October 11, 2023. But the scene that greeted him at a leafy kibbutz near Gaza at the weekend will haunt him forever. Atias said he saw the bodies of scores of men, women and children who had been gunned down or blown up by militants. On the grass of the kibbutz on Wednesday evening, bodies in white body bags were laid out in rows. Israel's death toll from the Hamas attack has reached 1,200 with more than 2,700 wounded, the Israeli military says.

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Persons: Ilan Rosenberg, Hami Atias, Atias, I'd, Beeri, He'll, Mir Shani, Shani, he'll, Golan Abitbul, Neta, Emily Rose, Hayun, John Davison, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: REUTERS, Reuters, Gaza, Palestinian, Hamas, Thomson Locations: Gaza, Kibbutz Beeri, Israel, Beeri, kibbutzes, Jerusalem