The horrific details of Hamas’ attacks on Israeli border communities are just coming to light, and none are more shocking than the carnage in the small farming kibbutz of Kfar Aza about one mile from the boundary with Gaza.

The Israel Defense Forces took a team of foreign press to the site Tuesday to document the slaughter, including the killing of children, women and senior citizens.  

“I’ve never seen anything like this in my career, never in 40 years of service. This something I never imagined,” Israeli Maj. Gen. Itai Veruv told reporters. “It’s not a battlefield. It’s a massacre. It’s something I’ve never seen in my life. You see the babies, the mothers, the fathers in the bedroom, in the protection room, and how the terrorists killed them.”

Reporters saw dozens of body bags holding the dead, although an exact death toll was not given. After Hamas militants overran the community on Saturday, they left a jumble of destroyed homes containing blood-soaked mattresses and blood-spattered baby strollers.

The IDF would not detail how people were killed, but said civilians were “brutally butchered in an ISIS way of action.”

“Men, women, children, hands bound, shot, executed, heads cut,” CNN reporter Nic Robertson said.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Wednesday, “The more we learn about these sickening atrocities, the worse it gets. Hamas deliberately targeted civilians and massacred them just because they are Jews. Hamas has, again, killed innocent Americans and civilians from many other countries and Hamas has abducted entirely innocent civilians. So the United States continues to stand firm with Israel and the Israeli people.”

• Dave Boyer can be reached at dboyer@washingtontimes.com.