TEL AVIV: Hamas militants who invaded Israel showed unparalleled brutality to the people. They didn't spare little children, old people and even pregnant women. Yossi Landau, who has spent been collecting corpses in Israel for the last 33 years, almost reached breaking point recovering the remains of people killed by Hamas militants in the country's deadliest assault. Landau woke to the sounds of sirens on Saturday.

It was not until later that he realised the launches were "only a cover up, because the main part is the invasion" by Hamas militants, who swept across the Gaza border to kill an estimated 1,200 people.From his home in Ashdod, a coastal city north of Gaza, he recalled seeing "the horror" as he rushed to the scene.

"I saw cars turned over, I saw people on the street dead," Landau said in Sderot, a town near the border where multiple residents were killed.

He has 33 years of experience volunteering for Zaka, an organisation that recovers the bodies of people who suffered unnatural deaths.

But as gunfights raged between Palestinian militants and Israeli forces, Landau said he witnessed violence he had never seen before. According to him, each dead body was a testament to how brutal the attack was.

"A piece of road that should've taken 15 minutes, it took us 11 hours because we went and picked up everyone, put them in a bag.
After already loading dozens of corpses onto refrigerated trucks, my fellow volunteers and I reached Beeri, a kibbutz of around 1,200 residents five kilometres (three miles) from Gaza. After entering the first home and finding a dead woman, I felt that I was falling apart. The entire crew felt the same. The woman's stomach was ripped open, a baby was there, still connected with the cord, and stabbed," said the 55-year-old.

Abandoned cars that were torched or riddled with bullet holes still litter the landscape of southern Israel.

Landau said he saw multiple civilians, including around 20 children, who had their hands tied behind their backs before being shot and torched. He also said that many victims were sexually assaulted by the militants.

Meanwhile, despite Israeli forces claiming that Hamas militants have been driven out of the country, heavy fighting is still going on in the border area between the army and the militants. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the other day that he will wipe out every last terrorist.

At the same time, Israel, which continues to carry out heavy airstrikes in Gaza, has also attacked Syria. The attack happened ahead of Iran's foreign minister's visit to Syria. Israel had previously attacked Syrian airports and ports to prevent the flow of weapons from Iran to militant groups. Following the attack, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi spoke on the phone with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.