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Hamas terrorists left beheaded babies behind in their attack on Israel, IDF commander reports. Soldiers showed journalists the devastation.

The bodies are piling up in the aftermath of a massive attack on Israel by Hamas militants, with Benjamin Netanyahu vowing to “exact a price” for the bloodshed.

Earlier, the Israeli military said it had secured the border with Gaza, which is now under the heaviest bombardment in its history

We've been speaking to the American-Israeli family of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, one of those who's been taken.

We can't get inside Gaza to report on what is going on, but our colleague - filmmaker Yousef Hammash - lives there. 

The Gazan health ministry says 830 Palestinians have already been killed in the bombardment - while the UN human rights chief said Israeli strikes had hit residential buildings and schools.

We spoke to Osama Hamdan, he is a spokesman based in Beirut for Hamas, which is a designated terrorist organisation according to the UK government.

We spoke to Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner of the Israel Defence Forces. We began by asking him for his response to criticisms by Israelis of the IDF’s slow response time - in some cases up to ten hours - following Saturday’s attacks.

Israeli forces would have the "almost impossible task" of punching into a densely packed region while searching house-to-house, McCaffrey said.