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You are used to a lot in your work. But about 200 forensic pathologists, including Israelis and volunteers from abroad – including from Switzerland – appear disturbed in examining the victims of the Hamas massacre. The American Middle East portal Media Line reports this in a report by Abu Kabir, Israel’s National Center for Forensic Medicine in Tel Aviv.
Victims were stored there in containers near the port. The remains of the victims of violence are taken to Abu Kabir. Many were “no longer recognizable as human due to the ferocity of the attack.” Even for hardened forensic experts it was “hard to bear”.
The doctors “were visibly disturbed by the evidence they had,” the reporter said. “Despite all efforts to remain objective and detached – as the work requires – many burst into tears during the day.”
Last hug with child
Among the remains were charred hands with lacerations. These apparently show where the victims’ hands were tied behind their backs with metal wire before being burned alive. Also examined was a charred mass of flesh, which at first glance showed no sign of ever having belonged to a human being. Or two people.
Only a CT scan provided certainty. Remains of two fused spines – one from an adult, one from a juvenile. A parent and a child. Forensics suspect the two were tied together with metal wires in a final embrace and then set on fire.
Burned alive
He has seen many terrible things in his 31-year career, but nothing now surpasses the gruesome images, said Dr. Chen Kugel, director of Abu Kabir. “The proportion of charred bodies is high. Many have gunshot wounds to their hands, indicating that they held their hands to their faces in defense. We know that many were burned alive in their homes. There is soot in their windpipes and throats. This means they were still breathing when they were set on fire.”
The only consolation, Kugel says, is that the burned victims likely died from inhaling carbon dioxide and soot before the fire killed them.
The ages of the victims range from three months to 80 or 90 years. Many corpses, including those of babies, have no heads. When asked if they had been beheaded, Kugel said yes. However, given the circumstances, it is difficult to determine whether they were decapitated before or after death and how they were decapitated – ‘cut off with a knife or blown away with a bazooka’.
Some are never identified
Initially, all remains of victims of the massacres were collected in the Shura military camp in central Israel. There are currently approximately 950 body bags still stored in Shura. But instead of body bags, people just talk about “bags.” Because it is not clear how many victims are inside. Head forensic scientist Kugel: “Someone’s remains can be in one bag. Or a person’s remains could be in multiple bags.”
Especially in the Jewish faith, it would be important to bury the dead as quickly as possible. Specialists in Israel are currently working in four locations to identify the bodies and release them for burial. The first eight of a total of thirty Thai victims were repatriated to Bangkok on Friday. About 350 bodies have not yet been identified. “Some people we will never find and never identify,” Kugel says.
“They are not people”
The torturous work of forensic scientists also has a message for the world. “I want the world to know that Hamas enjoyed killing,” said Dr. Nurit Bublil, head of the DNA laboratory at the Abu Kabir Center. “This was not a battle, not a military conflict, not a state conflict or political conflict. Hamas enjoyed the killings so much that they did everything they could to celebrate the killing.”
Bublil: “They celebrated burning houses with civilians inside who had done nothing to them. They liked to grab an 18-year-old girl from a party or festival, drag her to a car and take her to Gaza. And who knows what happened in between. They enjoyed and celebrated death.”
The doctor calls her ‘monster. These are not people. They showed no mercy to anyone. No one who was alive and met them survived. No one.”
Source: Blick
I am Amelia James, a passionate journalist with a deep-rooted interest in current affairs. I have more than five years of experience in the media industry, working both as an author and editor for 24 Instant News. My main focus lies in international news, particularly regional conflicts and political issues around the world.
