Note found on body of Hamas terrorist calls for beheadings, removal of hearts

A handwritten note found on the body of a Hamas terrorist encouraged the jihadists to decapitate heads and remove the hearts and livers of their Israeli victims, Israel’s military said.

Israel Defense Forces spokesman Brig. Gen. Daniel Hagari was shown the horrific missive by an aide for the first time during an interview with CBS News.

“You must sharpen the blades of your swords and be pure in your intentions before Allah. Know that the enemy is a disease that has no cure, except beheading and removing the hearts and livers. Attack them!” the note reads in Arabic, according to the Jerusalem Post.

The orders came from Hamas leadership, which declared the religious importance of killing Jews and provided inspiration from historical Muslim leaders who massacred men, sold women and children into slavery, and looted cities.

Hagari reacted to the note by stressing the need to vanquish the terror group.

“The Oct. 7 massacre is something that I haven’t seen through my life,” he told CBS News. “This is a war. We have to fight. There is only one goal: Defeat Hamas. Kill the leaders of terror and bring our people home.”

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Asked what his message was to the people who wrote the note, he said: “We have only one country. It’s Israel. It’s our democracy, it’s our country. We’re not going anywhere. We’re going to fight for our country and we’re going to use all the means we can.”

More than 1,400 people in Israel have been killed, mostly civilians who died in the initial rampage, according to Israeli officials.

On Wednesday, the IDF raised the number of remaining hostages in Gaza to 222 people, including foreigners believed captured by Hamas during the incursion. 

Four Israeli hostages have been released as the IDF remains poised to begin its expected ground incursion into the Gaza Strip.