Hamas Terrorist’s Chilling Oct. 7 Confession: ‘Our Mission Was to Kill Every Person We See’ in Israel

A video shared by Israel Defense Forces Wednesday showed a member of Hamas admitting that the group's mission was to kill every person they saw on October 7 and not to kidnap anyone.

Omar Sami Marzuk Abu Rusha told the Shin Bet, which released the video, that the intention was to kill on sight when militants crossed the border into Israel, targeting settlements close to Gaza and revelers at a music festival.

"The mission was simply to kill. We were not supposed to kidnap, only to kill. To kill every person we see and come back," he said, speaking of how the group he was with attacked Kfar Aza, a kibbutz close to the border with Gaza.

Abu Rusha identified himself as a soldier with the Nukhba unit within Hamas, which he had been with for between eight months and a year. He said that leadership told militants that the Israelis they were attacking were soldiers, even the women.

A guide had helped the group Abu Rusha was with to navigate inside Israel, he said.

"We moved in the first house. We checked it and there was nothing there. Hamzeh A-Zarad burned the exterior room, set it on fire," he continued. "Then someone came out towards the garden in the back with a water hose - Abu Ahmed and Hamzeh saw him, shot at him and killed him."

Hamas member Omar Sami Marzuk Abu Rusha Ariel Oseran/X

He spoke of shooting through windows and setting a bedroom on fire after not finding anyone inside, before moving from house to house. Eventually they reached a home where the sounds of children crying could be heard within a safe room.

The person interviewing Abu Rusha asked him repeatedly to imitate the sound they were making before he and his comrades shot at them and he refuses to, simply saying it was the sound of "children crying."

"We shot at the safe room... until we didn't hear noise anymore," Abu Rusha added. At this point the Israeli army arrived, with a fight ensuing for around ten minutes before Abu Rusha and his group surrendered.

Residents of the kibbutz have reported that 62 people were killed that day, while 17 were taken hostage by Hamas.

A Hamas official claimed in a recent TV interview, shared widely Wednesday, that the group's objective was the annihilation of Israel and that the October 7 attacks would be repeated again and again to achieve that.

Israel responded to the attacks, which saw at least 1,400 killed, by declaring war with Hamas. In its most recent update, Israel Defense Forces said it had struck over 11,000 targets and thwarted further terror attacks by Hamas.