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In dozens of other border towns and kibbutzim along the border, similar grisly scenes were found, according to Israel Defense Forces officials.

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PHOTO: ABC's Matt Gutman reports from a kibbutz in Kfar Aza, Israel, Oct. 10, 2023, where militants attacked, and killed scores of people days earlier.
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As of Wednesday evening, more than 1,200 civilians and soldiers had been killed in Israel and more than 2,900 injured since Saturday's surprise attack.

In Gaza, at least 950 people have died and 5,000 others have been injured in retaliatory airstrikes by Israeli jet fighters and surface-to-ground missiles since Saturday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. At least 260 of the dead in Gaza are children and 230 are women, the health ministry said.

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PHOTO: ABC's Matt Gutman reports from a kibbutz in Kfar Aza, Israel, Oct. 10, 2023, where militants attacked, and killed scores of people days earlier.
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In an address to the nation on Tuesday afternoon, Biden described in graphic detail the horrors that foisted on Israel.

Among the dead are at least 22 American citizens, the State Department said Wednesday. Biden said Tuesday that other Americans are believed to be among dozens of hostages taken back to Gaza and held by Hamas terrorists.

\"It's abhorrent. The brutality of Hamas' bloodthirstiness brings to mind the worst rampages of ISIS,\" Biden said of the Islamic terrorist group that emerged in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States, and decapitated prisoners and journalists throughout Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.

Referring to Hamas' attacks in Israel, the president said, \"Parents [were] butchered using their bodies to try to protect their children\" and described \"stomach-turning reports of babies being killed, entire families slain.\"

Biden said he supports Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to declare war on Hamas, saying, \"Israel has a right to respond, indeed has a duty to respond to the vicious attacks.\"

\"Let there be no doubt,\" Biden said, \"the United States has Israel's back.\"

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