Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who has been on travel excursions to Israel since 1973, said in a new Newsmax interview that his recent tour of Kibbutz Kfar Aza, a location hit by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7, really opened his eyes and he's "witnessed a lot of things, but nothing like this."
"I wanted to be here to say I stand with Israel," Huckabee told Newsmax's Daniel Cohen at the kibbutz in an interview airing on Newsmax Thursday. "I stand with the Jewish people. What happened to them should never again happen to any human beings on the face of the Earth."
Huckabee and conservative author Joel Rosenberg together led an American evangelical delegation to the kibbutz, with the tour hosted by a Knesset member, Danny Danon, to send a "powerful message of solidarity with Israel," Cohen reported.
"We walked there for about an hour," said Cohen. "The bloodstains have all been scrubbed, but nothing can erase the crimes the terrorists committed there on Oct. 7."
In all, Hamas terrorists murdered 63 people at Kibbutz Kfar Aza, and took 18 as hostages.
"It was atrocious, and they knew they were targeting children, babies, women, unarmed men, and elderly [people], Holocaust survivors," said Huckabee. "It just reeks of the worst kind of human atrocity. I want everyone in America and across the world to say we stand with Israel."
Cohen also reported on Iris Haim, the mother of Yotam Haim, one of three hostages who were mistakenly killed by Israel Defense Forces soldiers last week.
She sent a voice message to the soldiers who shot her son, telling them that she loves them and that she blames "only Hamas" for what happened to her son, Cohen said.
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