According to a mainline Israeli television station, the bodies of forty babies were found in Kfar Aza after the Hamas militants invaded the town on Saturday.

According to i24 News, some babies had been beheaded and were being carried on gurneys.

David, I find it hard to explain the sheer number of casualties. The Israeli military claims they don’t know the exact number of casualties, but when I speak to soldiers they tell me what they saw as they walked through the different homes and communities. They said that babies had their heads chopped off. Families were shot down completely in their beds. Right now, you can see these soldiers comforting one another.

The reporter continues to describe the ongoing house-to-house violence, where bodies are found every hour. The area is also strewn with booby traps, making it harder to recover the bodies of those who were murdered.

The kibbutz is located near the Gaza Strip’s southern border and was among the areas that Hamas targeted. The horror of what happened is hard to comprehend.

We will update this story as more information becomes available.