The atrocities of the Hamas terror attack on Israelis on Oct. 7 already have been well-documented, including videos that offer a truly detailed look at the horror inflicted.

Babies beheaded and whole families burned alive are among the gritty details that have emerged from the assault that killed 1,400. In addition, of course, to the reports of rape and abuse that also have been made.

But it gets even worse.

Now a report says some of the attackers, the terrorists who inflicted atrocities against Jews not seen since the Holocaust, were children.

An investigation by the Washington Free Beacon cited Eran Smilansky, a 28-year-old potato farmer who reported watching Gazan children going from house to house, laughing as Hamas terrorists killed people.

“They were like young, young kids,” Smilansky charged.

He had defended his home from terrorists for more than six hours that day.

“They were going in front of the terrorists, laughing with their friends and looking very calm. I remember thinking, What the f***?”

The Free Beacon reported Smilansky was one the survivors of the Nir Oz massacre who reported witnessing boys or women “from the Gaza Strip” who were looting the kibbutz that day.

The youngest children were around 10 years old, according to several of the survivors, one of whom provided photographs of some of the women and children he saw, the Free Beacon reported.

The report said evidence of that even exists in the public domain, as an online video of a 12-year-old Israeli boy’s abduction “appears to show a Gazan boy of about the same age accompanying the kidnappers.”

It already had been reported that ordinary Gaza residents “joined in Hamas’s bloody rampage across southern Israeli communities.”

The reason isn’t complicated, said Michel Milshtein, head of the Palestinian Studies Forum in Tel Aviv.

“Hamas directed the education system, the media, and the religious institutions to brainwash children, who make up half of Gaza’s 2.2-million-person population. Israelis got their first up-close look at this Palestinian Gen Z on Oct. 7.”

The report cited other evidence:

Eyal Barad, who hid in a safe room during the attack, had a camera set up outside his home and recorded not just Hamas commandos with automatic weapons, but also ordinary men and women. And at least a dozen children, ages 10-15.

Amotz Bazer, a 52-year-old farm worker, was hiding in his safe room when he heard gunmen push two young boys through a window. They then opened the front door for the terrorists.

“They were not older than 10,” said Bazer.

And Natali Yohanan, a 38-year-old English teacher, was hiding in a safe room and watched a Gazan woman, accompanied by terrorists, come in, heat up leftovers, watch TV and sing and dance in Yohanan’s home.

Raziel Tamil, 26, was hiding near festival grounds where a music event had been going on, and watched as Hamas’ prisoners begged for their lives.

“I heard the screaming,” he told the Free Beacon.

Then, he said, commandos “gave some of the children rifles and directed them to execute hostages, which they did. The terrorists shot more of the hostages and loaded the survivors into the truck, he said,” according to the report.

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