ABC News reporters were allowed into the kibbutz on Tuesday to witness the full scope of the atrocities exacted by Hamas fighters, who stormed through a security fence at the edge of the town, shooting indiscriminately at residents, burning homes and killing entire families.

“You’re seeing the slaughter here. It’s very important to see,” Lt. Col. Richard Hecht, a spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces, told ABC News during a ghastly tour of the shattered community. “They [Hamas militants] came in and they killed civilians.” …

“You see the babies, the mothers, the fathers in the bedrooms, in the protection rooms and how the terrorists killed them,” Veruv said. “It’s not a war, it’s not a battlefield. It’s a massacre.”

Describing the gruesome discoveries soldiers made in the houses, Veruv said, “They burned the apartments, then they shoot the babies, they cut their heads.”

[There continue to be deniers on social media, who apparently didn’t think to check the videos that Hamas posted of their own atrocities. Ben Shapiro has spent part of his day posting grisly photos to Twitter that back up the witness accounts of these atrocities. I’d prefer not to embed them, but if you really need proof, you can start here and here, and then keep following Ben. — Ed]