Soldiers working to prepare the bodies of Israeli victims of the Palestinian Hamas terror attack Oct. 7 for burial say that they have seen signs of rape, mutilation, and torture that they could not possibly have imagined.
One told the UK Daily Mail that the injuries are “worse” than the “worst horror film ever made.”
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL – OCTOBER 12: Soldiers cry during the the funeral of Valentin (Eli) Ghnassia, 23, who was killed in a battle with Palestinian militants at Kibbutz Be’eeri near the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, on October 12, 2023 at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, Israel. Israel has sealed off Gaza and launched sustained retaliatory air strikes, which have killed at least 1,200 people with more than 300, 000 displaced, after a large-scale attack by Hamas. On October 7, the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel from Gaza by land, sea, and air, killing over 1,200 people and wounding around 2800. Israeli soldiers and civilians have also been taken hostage by Hamas and moved into Gaza. The attack prompted a declaration of war by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the announcement of an emergency wartime government. (Photo by Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images
The Daily Mail reported:
‘There is evidence of mass rape of so brutal that they broke their victims’ pelvis – women, grandmothers, children.
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‘People whose heads have been cut off. Women standing in their night dresses woken up and shot. Faces blasted off. Heads smashed and their brains spilling out.
‘A baby was cut out of a pregnant woman and beheaded and then the mother was beheaded.”
The bodies are being prepared by an Israeli military unit that works to bury the bodies in accordance with Jewish custom, which requires that as much as possible of the body be present at burial, and that burial take place as soon as possible.
The sheer scale of the terror attack, and the difficulty of identifying some of the burnt or disfigured remains, has meant the process of preparing the bodies has taken weeks in some cases.
There are also civilian religious organizations, like ZAKA, that work to collect the remains of the dead for burial — and that have grown their services to include first aid and search and rescue operations.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the new biography, Rhoda: ‘Comrade Kadalie, You Are Out of Order’. He is also the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
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