‘It was a pogrom’: Be’eri survivors on the horrific attack by Hamas terrorists
Once popular with Israelis as a weekend getaway, Be’eri is now indelibly associated with a massacre
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The smell of death hits you at the entrance to kibbutz Be’eri. Until Saturday morning Be’eri had a population of 1,200, the largest of the 12 villages that make up the Eshkol regional council that runs along the border with Gaza.
Now it is a place indelibly associated with horror and tragedy, as one of the centres of the massacre undertaken by the militant Islamist group Hamas in southern Israel beginning on Saturday morning.
