Blinken Recalls How Hamas Gunmen Brutally Tortured and Murdered a Family of Four in Israel and Then ‘Sat Down and Had a Meal’

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BLINKEN: "Including — and if you’ll forgive me, because, again, these stories recede so quickly — a family at its breakfast table at one of the kibbutzes — by the way, the profound irony of attacks on kibbutzes, the very people who most ardently believe and want a future of peace between Israelis and Palestinians, a future of two states — a family of four, a young boy and girl, 6 and 8t years old and their parents around the breakfast table. The father, his eye gouged out in front of his kids, the mother’s breasts cut off, the girl's foot amputated, the boy's fingers cut off before they were executed. And then their executioners sat down and had a meal. That’s what this society is dealing with. And no nation could tolerate that and, as we've said repeatedly, as President Biden has repeatedly made clear, Israel has not only the right but the obligation to defend itself and to try to take every possible step to make sure this doesn’t happen again.”

(Via Mediaite)