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2023-10-15 11:47:30

Israel says military forensics have found signs of torture in victims of Hamas attack

Israel’s military forensic teams have examined the bodies of victims of the Hamas attack on October 7 in communities near the Gaza Strip and have found multiple signs of torture, rape and other atrocities, according to official sources. Israelis this Sunday.

Around 1,300 bodies have been transferred to an army base in Ramla, central Israel, where forensic experts have examined them to determine the identity of the victims and the circumstances of their deaths. 90% of the deceased military personnel have been identified while forensic experts continue work to do the same with civilian victims, as explained by Rabbi Israel Weiss, former chief rabbi of the army, one of the officials who supervises the identification of the dead. According to Weis, many of the bodies show signs of torture and rape.

“We have seen dismembered bodies, with their arms and feet cut off, their heads decapitated, a minor who was decapitated,” said an army reserve officer who identified herself only by her first name, Avigayil. According to her, forensic experts have found signs of rape in several of the bodies examined, which have been stored in refrigerated containers.

A military dentist, identified as Captain Maayan, has said they are carrying out identifications on all the bodies. “We have found them in different states of abuse. “We have seen shots and we have seen other signs that are pure torture,” he added.

The military personnel who have been in charge of this process have not shown any graphic evidence to the press that shows the abuses detected in the forensic examination. Hamas, the militia considered a terrorist organization by the EU and the US and which has controlled the Gaza Strip since 2007, has denied that its militants committed torture in their attack on Israeli territory on October 7 that caused the death of more than 1,400 people. The fundamentalists also kidnapped more than 100 people as hostages and took them back to the Palestinian enclave.

Since then, Israel has not stopped bombing Gaza, causing more than 2,300 deaths, and has imposed a total blockade on the Strip that threatens the lives of more than 2 million people who may be left without food and water to survive. . In addition, it has thousands of troops stationed on the border ready to launch a ground incursion into the Palestinian enclave. (Reuters)