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The international war correspondent who first revealed Hamas’ beheading of Israeli children stood by her reporting Wednesday while recalling some of the atrocities she saw with her “own eyes” as doubts arose on social media.

i24News reporter Nicole Zedeck slammed people who questioned her reporting that 40 babies and young children were slaughtered — with some decapitated — at a kibbutz near the Gaza border on Tuesday.

“I witnessed some of those scenes with my own eyes as we were walking through this community that may be a quarter of a mile from the Gaza border, the atrocities that were still left behind, children, cribs, baby cribs overturned on their side, splattered with blood,” she said on “The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show.”

“Horrible, horrible images.”

She called the bloodshed witnessed by Israeli soldiers an “apocalyptic scene.”


  i24News reporter Nicole Zedeck slammed people who questioned her reporting that 40 babies and young children were slaughtered — with some decapitated — at a kibbutz near the Gaza border. Instagram / Nicole Zedeck i24News reporter Nicole Zedeck slammed people who questioned her reporting that 40 babies and young children were slaughtered — with some decapitated — at a kibbutz near the Gaza border. Instagram / Nicole Zedeck

  “There are no words to describe what they’ve seen,” Zedeck said. “Babies’ heads cut off. That’s what they encountered when they came there.” Instagram / Nicole Zedeck “There are no words to describe what they’ve seen,” Zedeck said. “Babies’ heads cut off. That’s what they encountered when they came there.” Instagram / Nicole Zedeck

“There are no words to describe what they’ve seen,” Zedeck said. “Babies’ heads cut off. That’s what they encountered when they came there.

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“So as horrible as it is and I wish that it wasn’t true. And I see how those images and those words are hard to comprehend because it’s hard to comprehend how anyone could commit such heinous, heinous crimes. But that’s exactly what happened in just one of the kibbutz communities.”

When Travis and Sexton played a sound bite from a commentator calling the reporting false, Zedeck pushed back.  


  President Biden also said Wednesday he’s seen photos that back claims of decapitated bodies. Instagram / Nicole Zedeck President Biden also said Wednesday he’s seen photos that back claims of decapitated bodies. Instagram / Nicole Zedeck

“You know, it’s sickening, really, that people are asking, ‘Where are the babies? Why aren’t you showing the babies?’” she shot back. “Is that something that anyone would want to see the first thing with their own eyes? Because after the graphic images that I saw of just children’s beds covered in blood, I don’t think I would be able to stomach those atrocities as well.”

She credited Israeli soldiers who had to carry the children’s bodies into ambulances and conveyed the brutality of the killings.

Israel-Hamas war: How we got here

2005: Israel unilaterally withdraws from the Gaza Strip more than three decades after winning the territory from Egypt in the Six-Day War.

2006: Terrorist group Hamas wins a Palestinian legislative election.

2007: Hamas seizes control of Gaza in a civil war.

2008: Israel launches military offensive against Gaza after Palestinian terrorists fired rockets into the town of Sderot.

2023: Hamas launches the biggest attack on Israel in 50 years, in an early-morning ambush Oct. 7, firing thousands of rockets and sending dozens of militants into Israeli towns.

Terrorists killed more than 1,200 Israelis, wounded more than 4,200, and took at least 200 hostage.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was quick to announce, “We are at war,” and vowed Hamas would pay “a price it has never known.”

The Gaza Health Ministry — which is controlled by Hamas — reported at least 3,000 Palestinians have been killed and more than 12,500 injured since the war began.

“I could never imagine something like that happening, so I could never speak those words if no one had spoken them to me because I didn’t know that was a possibility for someone to witness with their own eyes,” she said.

“I didn’t know anyone was capable of committing something like that, so that’s the only way I could report it, by speaking to these soldiers, these commanders, who witnessed it firsthand.”


  Zedeck called the bloodshed witnessed by Israeli soldiers an “apocalyptic scene.” Instagram / Nicole Zedeck Zedeck called the bloodshed witnessed by Israeli soldiers an “apocalyptic scene.” Instagram / Nicole Zedeck

A spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told CNN Wednesday that babies and toddlers were found with their “heads decapitated” in southern Israel.

President Biden also said Wednesday he’s seen photos that back claims of decapitated bodies.

“I never really thought that I would see and have confirmed pictures of terrorists beheading children,” he said — though the remark was later walked back by the White House.

Neither the president nor US officials have seen images or heard independently confirmed reports of beheaded children, a spokesperson clarified, according to the Washington Post.

The White House says Biden based his remark on claims made by a spokesman for Israel’s prime minister and media reports coming out of the Jewish state.

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