Peloni: There can be no bargaining with these barbarians. They must be annihilated – there can be no alternative.
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The Israel government has released a recording made by the Shin Bet of a telephone call it conducted with Israelis being held by Hamas captors at Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7, 2023. The Shin Bet operative also talks to one of the Hamas men, a certain “Hasan.” Among Hasan’s chilling remarks there was this: “Stay on the line and hear them die.” The recording captures the confusion, chaos, and sheer horror of that day, when a Hamas man casually murders several children, and other Israelis are forced to stand outside one of the buildings where, their Hamas captors know, they will be mistakenly killed by the IDF. More on this recording can be found here: “‘Stay on the line and hear them die’: Recordings reveal horror of Hamas hostage crisis in Be’eri,” Jerusalem Post, January
New recordings of a hostage-taking situation during Hamas’s October 7 attacks in Kibbutz Be’eri were published by Channel 12 on Friday.
The recordings were from Be’eri resident Pessi Cohen’s house, which became notable during a situation on October 7 where 40 terrorists barricaded themselves in the house with 15 hostages. Only two of the captives survived.
The recordings were taken in real-time by the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), the report noted. As negotiations with the terrorists for the hostages’ release were held, an intense firefight between Hamas and Israeli forces raged outside the residence.
Cohen’s house became a symbol for the battles that went on in the kibbutz, and the fight there lasted for about six hours.
The recordings that were found
One recording released was between one of the two survivors at Cohen’s house, Yasmin Porat, speaking to a Shin Bet representative, saying, “I am here in Kibbutz Be’eri with 50 hostages along with Palestinian guys, everyone here is crying a lot. They want to take us with them to Gaza.”
Porat continued, saying “Things are very bad, there’s one person here badly injured, another already starting to feel unwell, and one that was killed. They’re taking us with them either way – alive or dead.”
She then recalled that the Hamas terrorists saw that she wasn’t “nervous enough” and that she was “speaking calmly,” the report quoted her as saying.
Porat then reportedly noticed the Hetzroni children near her begging for their lives. Their pleas were captured by the recording. The children were later discovered to have been killed by Hamas.
Also with her in the recording is a Hamas terrorist, which the N12 report named “Hassan.”
“I have 50 people hostage with me,” the recording captured Hassan saying. “I want to go with the 50 to Gaza. Listen to my instructions now, so that I don’t start murdering them. You now have five minutes for me to leave the settlement and take them to Gaza. Any attempt at intervention by the air force, fighters, tanks, or vehicles – I will murder all 50.”
The Shin Bet representative tried to buy time with the Hamas terrorist, the N12 report added, asking him for 20 more minutes to update the Israeli forces on the ground.
Hassan and other terrorists did not cooperate with the representative’s request. Instead, they tried to take the hostages to jeeps that would head towards Gaza but were prevented from doing so by Israeli forces who were operating outside the house.
As the Shin Bet representative was reportedly trying to communicate to the IDF soldiers that they should not shoot, Hassan was recorded saying, “The army came to me, here the army came to me.”
Suheib Abu Amer, a bus driver from east Jerusalem who was kidnapped from the Nova Festival to serve as an Arabic interpreter for the terrorists, came onto the line.
“I am also one of the hostages,” the N12 report quoted him as saying. “I am from Jerusalem, from Beit Hanina. There was a nature party, and I am a minibus driver. I have been running since this morning, I don’t know where to hide.”
The Shin Bet official responded saying he needs to know Amer’s location so that Israeli forces do not harm him.
Hassan, on the line with the Shin Bet official, said he would give the Israeli forces five minutes to reveal themselves, and if they failed to do so, he would shoot a hostage. He went on to threaten to shoot another every five minutes if his demands were not met.
He also said to the Israeli official, “You stay on the line and hear them die.”…
At Kibbutz Be’eri, Hamas operatives not only murdered Israeli men, women, and children — including little Liel, and the Hetzroni children who begged in vain for their lives — but also put six of the hostages just outside Pessi Cohen’s house so that they would be killed by the IDF, which had been unaware of their existence and thought they were part of Hamas. Hasan, who had said to a Shin Bet operative “Stay on the line and hear them die,” gave himself up. The IDF, the army accused by so many of “genocide,” did not touch a hair on his head.
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