‘We need to destroy Hamas’

As the United Nations calls for Israel to take back an order for civilians to leave Gaza City, a survivor of the Kibbutz Kfar Aza massacre who believes an Israeli ground invasion is now justified, said Hamas must be destroyed.

The 22-year-old Neta Portal had five bullets removed from her left leg and one from her right leg at a hospital in Tel Aviv.

Speaking with the BBC, Portal trembles as she recalls slipping in and out of consciousness after the gunmen broke into the residents’ safe room in the Jewish community of Kfar Aza and opened fire for the first time.

She said, “They were shooting people. They were shooting the kids. And the people were shouting ‘Please no, please no.’ I tried to wake myself because I didn’t want to die.”

When asked how she thinks the Israeli government should respond to the massacre of her community and the other atrocities, she said, “You want the truth? I don’t want Hamas anymore in my life. We need to destroy them one by one. We need to be strong.”

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