Nicole Zedeck stands by reporting of beheaded Israeli infants
The international war correspondent who first revealed Hamas’ beheading of Israeli children stood by her reporting Wednesday while recalling some of the atrocities she saw with her “own eyes” as doubts arose on social media.
i24News reporter Nicole Zedeck slammed people who questioned her reporting that 40 babies and young children were slaughtered — with some decapitated — at a kibbutz near the Gaza border on Tuesday.
“I witnessed some of those scenes with my own eyes as we were walking through this community that may be a quarter of a mile from the Gaza border, the atrocities that were still left behind, children, cribs, baby cribs overturned on their side, splattered with blood,” she said on “The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show,”
“Horrible, horrible images.”
She called the bloodshed witnessed by Israeli soldiers an “apocalyptic scene.”
“There are no words to describe what they’ve seen,” Zedeck said. “Babies’ heads cut off. That’s what they encountered when they came there.
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“So as horrible as it is and I wish that it wasn’t true. And I see how those images and those words are hard to comprehend because it’s hard to comprehend how anyone could commit such heinous, heinous crimes. But that’s exactly what happened in just one of the kibbutz communities.”
When Travis and Sexton played a sound bite from a commentator calling the reporting false, Zedeck pushed back.
“You know, it’s sickening, really, that people are asking, ‘Where are the babies? Why aren’t you showing the babies?’” she shot back. “Is that something that anyone would want to see the first thing with their own eyes? Because after the graphic images that I saw of just children’s beds covered in blood I don’t think I would be able to stomach those atrocities as well.”
She credited Israeli soldiers who had to carry the children’s bodies into ambulances and conveyed the brutality of the killings.
Worst attack on Israel in 50 years: How we got here
2005: Israel unilaterally withdraws from the Gaza Strip over three decades after winning the territory from Egypt in the Six-Day War.
2006: Terrorist group Hamas wins a Palestinian legislative election.
2007: Hamas seizes control of Gaza in a civil war.
2008: Israel launches military offensive against Gaza after Palestinian terrorists fired rockets into the town of Sderot.
2023: Hamas launches the biggest attack on Israel in 50 years.
Over 1,200 Israelis are dead, more than 3,000 are wounded and at least 100 were taken hostage, with the death toll expected to rise after Hamas terrorists fired thousands of rockets and sent dozens of militants into Israeli towns.
Hamas terrorists were seen taking female hostages and parading them down the street in horrifying videos.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced “We are at war” and vowed Hamas would pay “a price it has never known.”
Gaza health officials report at least 1,050 Palestinians have been killed more than 5,000 injured.
“I could never imagine something like that happening so I could never speak those words if no one had spoken them to me because I didn’t know that was a possibility for someone to witness with their own eyes,” she said.
“I didn’t know anyone was capable of committing something like that so that’s the only way I could report it by speaking to these soldiers, these commanders, who witnessed it firsthand.”
A spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told CNN Wednesday that babies and toddlers were found with their “heads decapitated,” in southern Israel.
President Biden also said Wednesday he’s seen photos that back claims of decapitated bodies.
“I never really thought that I would see and have confirmed pictures of terrorists beheading children,” he said — a remark later walked back by the White House.
“U.S. officials and the president have not seen pictures or confirmed such reports independently,” the administration said.
“The president based his comments about the alleged atrocities on the claims of Netanyahu’s spokesman and media reports from Israel.”
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