What the world saw a week ago was an absolutely devastating attack on Israel. Whilst the nation of Israel must always be on alert, they were caught unaware, similar to what occurred in the Yom Kippur war. We say this won’t happen again, fifty odd years later – it has.

This time, this was an Israeli holiday, Simchat Torah, this holiday is based on Jewish scriptures that is linked to the festival of Sukkot. The Israeli bases on the Gaza border were not heavily manned, it appears the majority of the personnel were off on leave for the national holiday. Hamas is universally known as a terrorist organisation, what we have seen is the level of brutality of Hamas fighters. They have adapted the tactics of ISIS, we have seen these fighters in Syria adapt these tactics, ultimately they are defeated just as Hamas will be destroyed by Israel.

The attacks on the Kfar Aza kibbutz are breathtaking, the level of brutality and violence shown by Hamas is indicative of the mindset. The kibbutz was attacked by approximately 50 heavily armed fighters, this is what evil is. What the world witnessed was pure evil, what we saw during this well planned attack left the world stunned. The soldiers in the base were beheaded as the military base was overrun, equipment stolen or damaged and Israeli invincibility wounded. The residents of the Kfar Aza kibbutz were slaughtered in unimaginable ways, children were killed and mutilated and even a holocaust survivor was taken hostage.

The Supernova music festival was less than a kilometer away, there were 250 murdered at the music festival alone, they tried to flee but were caught and murdered. There is footage of rockets flying overhead, I can imagine the party goers still felt safe as there was a wall between them and Gaza. Little did they know the wall had been breached by heavy machinery and fighters stormed through the holes in the fence. There were hostages taken, we expect some of these to be raped and murdered, the rest to be used as human shields when Israeli forces storm Gaza to destroy Hamas forever.