'This was a holocaust pure and simple': Babies beheaded, 40 children shot dead in a single settlement, and families burnt alive... SAM GREENHILL meets survivors of the Hamas death squads and hears their stories of unimaginable horror

Babies beheaded, grandparents slain and families torn apart - the full horror of 'Israel's 9/11' was starting to emerge last night. Hamas gunmen massacred 40 children in one farm settlement alone, their small bodies lying in their rooms riddled with bullets. And as shellshocked survivors told their stories, one bereaved grandson, Shmuel Harel, told me: 'They are the new Nazis. This was a holocaust, pure and simple.' He said his terrified 90-year-old grandmother's last moments were being dragged into her living room and shot twice in the head. A sobbing Israeli woman said she had to listen in helpless horror as her 12-year-old autistic daughter was kidnapped while clinging desperately to her grandmother.