Israeli first responders find a baby’s body with the oven element still embedded in it after the October 7 Hamas attacks

One of the most horrific acts that may have occurred on October 7 during Hamas’ brutal orchestrated attack on Israeli kibbutz is that a small baby was burned alive in a kitchen oven.

Relatives react during the funeral of an Israeli soldier killed in conflict with Hamas.

One of the most horrific acts that may have occurred on October 7 during Hamas’ brutal orchestrated attack on Israeli kibbutz is this: a small baby burned alive in a kitchen oven.

This claim has been made in a video testimony released by a first responder who had attended Kfar Azar, the kibbutz where previously it had been reported tens of people and babies were beheaded, the extent of which has been openly questioned.

Asher Moskowitz has told of the gruesome discovery when coronial staff opened a tiny body bag which he had transported from the Kfar Azar to the body identification area at Camp Shura four days after the mass attack.

Not only was the tiny baby burned, he was swollen and the oven element was embedded into his tiny body, said Moskowitz, who is a first responder for the United Hatzalah emergency unit.

Mosowitz said the baby’s parents had been tortured, the responders believed. No one knows if the parents were killed first, or if they had to watch what had happened to the baby.

Mosowitz’s job had been to transport the bodies from the murder scene to the military camp which had been set up to identify the victims and had been present when the baby was taken out of the bag.

The father of a young man killed by Hamas following the October 7 attacks says goodbye to his son.

Mr Moskowitz’s testimony, taped on video, was organised by the Hatzalah organisation to obtain first hand accounts of the Hamas atrocities, following disbelief from some critics about the savagery inflicted on the October 7 victims.

It was shared with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency earlier this week. This is the first time the claim that a baby was burned alive inside an oven has emerged, some three weeks after the mass slaughter.

In the days following October 7, The Australian was provided with a photograph of a badly charred body of a baby from Kfar Azar when requesting evidence of the beheadings from that kibbutz.

“They took the baby and put it, literally, in a kitchen oven,” Moskowitz said recalling the judgement of the doctors handling the body.

“The body hardened and, unfortunately, appeared to have also swollen and really, the heating element of the oven was on the body itself.”

The first indications of such barbarity emerged when the Hatzalah president Eli Beer spoke at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual conference in Las Vegas last Saturday.

“We saw a little baby in an oven,” Eli Beer said, adding “A little baby in the oven – These bastards put these babies in the oven and put on the oven”.

He said he had seen himself how a pregnant woman had her stomach opened up, the embryo stabbed and then the woman murdered. Some of this evidence has been obtained directly from body worn cameras downloaded from the Hamas attackers, but the baby atrocity is not believed to have been recorded.

But Beer said he had also seen evidence of little kids beheaded.

“We didn‘t know which head for which kid,“ he added. ”I was crying for five days straight. I couldn’t get (the images) out (of my mind). I couldn’t stop crying.”

Israel director of the national forensic laboratory Dr Ricardo Nachman told Israel Story he cannot recall dealing with such a colossal number of victims with such infernal damage.

He said: “We have cases without heads or without legs where it is nearly impossible to determine if we are looking at a child or a baby. The world doesn’t grasp the sheer cruelty of this situation.’’

More than 200 of the 1400 victims have not yet been identified because family members have been unable to recognise the victim, or that DNA is not obtainable.

Rabbi Israel Weiss told Israel Story he had been dealing with the bodies of babies and young children aged five, six and seven who were burned beyond recognition. He said people also suffered various amputations and piles of the body parts were then put in a pile and set on fire.