Testimonies Without Boundaries Quotes

“Am Israel chai, the people of Israel are still alive, and they will exist, and they will always exist - no matter how many times they try to destroy us. We will always stay here.”
― Alon Pentzel, Testimonies Without Boundaries: Israel: October 7th 2023

“They came to us and grabbed my friend's bag, and one of them started beating him on the head with a stick. That friend punched the guy who grabbed him, and together, we started running toward that dry creek. We ran for our lives. Those guys, who were Gaza citizens, entered through breaches in the fence and apparently came to rob us or kidnap us.”
― Alon Pentzel, Testimonies Without Boundaries: Israel: October 7th 2023

“Indeed, we made a grave and painful mistake when we were not ready. Still, the most terrible mistake was that of the enemy, the enemy whose "great heroes" murdered, massacred, raped, and butchered toddlers, the elderly, girls, and boys, burned down houses with living humans inside and committed the worst crimes against humanity. This enemy brought destruction and disaster to his cities and his people. An enemy who displays the book "Mein Kampf" by Hitler proudly in the rooms of his house and whose summer camps were camps of murderous brainwashing and blind hatred. An enemy who thought he knew us and underestimated the bravery of our sons and daughters until he saw with his own eyes how "a people that rises like a lion leaps up like a lion.”
― Alon Pentzel, Testimonies Without Boundaries: Israel: October 7th 2023

“I think that this was the biggest military failure that the State of Israel had. I think that it should be judged at the highest level. I think that the senior officials in the IDF who were in charge of the army at those moments should not only resign but also sit in prison for many months. The observers alerted everyone about the attack, but the senior officials did not give a fuck, and lo and behold, it blew up in our faces.”
― Alon Pentzel, Testimonies Without Boundaries: Israel: October 7th 2023

“Suddenly, someone ran towards me with half of her face blown off by a grenade. Because of the adrenaline, she didn't even feel that half of her lip was non-existent, totally ripped off.”
― Alon Pentzel, Testimonies Without Boundaries: Israel: October 7th 2023

“The terrorists cut off people's heads and kicked them to the middle of the road. The whole road was full of heads.”
― Alon Pentzel, Testimonies Without Boundaries: Israel: October 7th 2023

“At the entrance to the kibbutz, we saw a pregnant girl who had just been slaughtered. They completely slaughtered her, decapitated her, and dismembered her.”
― Alon Pentzel, Testimonies Without Boundaries: Israel: October 7th 2023

“The killings, cutting off the heads, tying people up and then shooting them, people who were shot through their hands because they tried to defend themselves while being shot at. Not only that, but the knowledge that everything was planned, precise and cold, not out of some specific storm of emotions. In the past, I have seen isolated cases like this, usually carried out by crazy people, mentally ill on a severe level. But on the Black Sabbath, you can see that it was something planned. These people did not have a mental illness. They did it to humiliate, strike fear and abuse.”
― Alon Pentzel, Testimonies Without Boundaries: Israel: October 7th 2023

“In the case of Shani Louk, we found a tiny part of her skull bone in one of the fields, even though her body is in Gaza. We checked the same part and saw in the DNA that it belonged to the Shani. Based on that, I determined that she was dead; this is because the part that was found was part of the base of the skull. You cannot live without this part unless they removed it in a very complex operation, one that was certainly not done on her in the field, and of course, she did not receive medical treatment after that. Therefore, it can be determined that she died.”
― Alon Pentzel, Testimonies Without Boundaries: Israel: October 7th 2023

“There were cases of rape on October 7th, rape that came before the kill. And you, as pathologists, have to decide if rape was done and how it was done. How do you determine what happened when a body arrives burned, rotten, or cut?"

Chen [Dr. Chen Kugel]…didn't hesitate, "I have something to say about it. It makes me very angry when people ask me for evidence of rape. I mean very angry. After all, we know very well that only a small percentage of rape cases have forensic evidence. In most cases, such conclusive evidence does not exist because the genitals are built for sex, so it is unlikely that there will always be an injury there. Even if there is sperm, extracting it as time passes is complicated. And here, the international community is asking us for proof. The videos are not enough, the testimonies of the survivors are not enough, and suddenly they are asking us for evidence that there was rape because otherwise, as far as they are concerned, it did not happen. Because Hamas, as we know, can kidnap babies and shoot the elderly but rape?! How can such a thing be believed?”
― Alon Pentzel, Testimonies Without Boundaries: Israel: October 7th 2023

“I saw a girl about twelve years old who certainly was decapitated by the terrorists. They shot her in the head and then took it off her.”
― Alon Pentzel, Testimonies Without Boundaries: Israel: October 7th 2023

“When someone is shot in the middle of a war, the mental energy is not invested in brutalizing them. In the case of the Black Sabbath, the terrorists spent time making the victims suffer. We see severed limbs and can't even tell what the terrorists did to cut off those limbs or if it was done while the victims were alive, because the corpses were brought to us in a rotting state - but the point is that we see severed limbs such as legs for example.”
― Alon Pentzel, Testimonies Without Boundaries: Israel: October 7th 2023

“In one case, we received a black lump of coal. Only after we took an X-ray could we understand that the same lump of coal was actually two different people. An older woman and a younger woman who were hugging. Their condition was such that they hugged while they were being burned, and around them was a metal wire that tied them together. We know that they were burned alive because they have soot in their tracheas.”
― Alon Pentzel, Testimonies Without Boundaries: Israel: October 7th 2023

“I saw axes, hammers, hoes, and screwdrivers. I saw all kinds of tools stuck in people. Every tool you can imagine they used to stick inside people's bodies," Natan told me.”
― Alon Pentzel, Testimonies Without Boundaries: Israel: October 7th 2023

“No fingers on his right hand. They cut them off. He was lying on the bed in a fetal position. He was charred."…When it comes to the brutality of Hamas terrorists, miracles are not part of the package, certainly not mercy.”
― Alon Pentzel, Testimonies Without Boundaries: Israel: October 7th 2023

“They tied her to a tree and raped her.”
― Alon Pentzel, Testimonies Without Boundaries: Israel: October 7th 2023

“Then we entered the house," he continued his testimony, "and we simply saw a human body standing. His head was slumped, and the body was pinned to the door frame. We didn't understand what we were seeing at all. Then, we noticed a nail gun on the floor, which apparently belonged to that resident. The terrorists nailed him to the door frame. Yes, they nailed him to the door frame.”
― Alon Pentzel, Testimonies Without Boundaries: Israel: October 7th 2023

“They gouged out the eye of the family's father. The mother's breast was cut off. The little girl's foot was amputated, and the seven-year-old boy's fingers were cut off. While the family was bleeding to death, the terrorists set up a table in front of them and started eating.”
― Alon Pentzel, Testimonies Without Boundaries: Israel: October 7th 2023

“So how do you explain that there are several Israeli citizens, Israeli-Muslims like you, who support the atrocities of Hamas?" Jamal told me the answer is simple. For him, those who support Hamas simply do not know the extent of the horror. "Until now, people do not fully understand what happened. The world does not understand what happened. If a video was released on behalf of the state showing what we saw, I doubt if anyone would be able to continue supporting them. No rational person who comprehends the scale of what happened can support it.”
― Alon Pentzel, Testimonies Without Boundaries: Israel: October 7th 2023

“Only someone deep inside could have obtained such intelligence for them. They came with neat records, pages, maps, addresses, videos of buildings and instructions on who to kill first.”
― Alon Pentzel, Testimonies Without Boundaries: Israel: October 7th 2023

“In what other ways did they kill people?” I asked Ephraim, who did not hesitate to tell me that in addition to people being burned and tortured with axes and knives, there were people who were strangled with zip ties.

"A very primitive and easy method. There were burnt people who were also tied up, strangled and choked with barbwire. Apparently, they wanted to take them captive and failed, so they just burned them," he revealed.”
― Alon Pentzel, Testimonies Without Boundaries: Israel: October 7th 2023

“In Kfar Aza, a tiny baby lay, more precisely, what was left of him. It is unclear whether they first cut off his hands and then beheaded him with an ax or beheaded him and then abused his body – we don’t know what was done first.”
― Alon Pentzel, Testimonies Without Boundaries: Israel: October 7th 2023

“They put a live grenade in her hand so she wouldn’t move and raped her. We found her bent forward, naked and shot. In another building, there were thirty bodies, most of them naked women. There is no doubt that there was a massive rape there.”
― Alon Pentzel, Testimonies Without Boundaries: Israel: October 7th 2023