"During the initial press conference, the forensics team showed images from their investigations. Among the images were those of charred hands with marks that revealed where t
he victims’ hands were bound behind their backs with metal wire
before being burned alive."
"Two spinal cords—one belonging to an adult, one to someone young—a
parent and child bound together by metal wires in a final embrace
before being set alight."
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"Colonel Golan Vach, head of the military search and rescue service, told AFP 'When I pulled it over I saw a decapitated baby. I took it up with my hands and I carried it, and I put it in the body bag. I personally did it,' he said while on a media tour of another kibbutz organised by the military."
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Israeli officer says he found baby beheaded in Hamas attack) [
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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.'
‘Women and children burned to charcoal. Bodies murdered with their hands tied behind their backs.'"
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Israeli morgue worker says horrors inflicted on Hamas's victims are 'worse than the Holocaust' including decapitated pregnant woman and her beheaded unborn child) [
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"They didn't just kill - they took their time. They bound families, tortured them, and eventually murdered them."
"Yossi Landau is the [Zaka] boss for the southern region - he has been doing this work for 33 years all over the world.
He tells me the latest person to be found at the Kfar Aza kibbutz has been beheaded."
"'We saw women with no clothes and hands tied to the back,' he says. 'We saw families... over here in this kibbutz I saw families with hands tied to the back, sitting parents and children, sitting one against the other, tortured.'"
"He continued: 'In Kfar Aza and Be'eri, we are talking about a total of 280 bodies, 280 casualties...
I would say 80% were tortured, and you're talking children, adults... You're talking a pile, two piles -
when we found them in Be'eri, two piles of 10 children each were tied to the back, burnt to death…'"
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Israel-Hamas war: Recovered bodies show 'bloodthirsty' gunmen 'took time over torture' - and that Hamas has changed) [
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"Many bodies showed signs of torture as well as rape. 'We've seen dismembered bodies with their arms and feet chopped off, people that were beheaded, a child that was beheaded,' a reserve warrant officer identified only by her first name of Avigayil told reporters."
"She said multiple cases of rape were found by forensic examination of the bodies, which have been stored in refrigerated containers.
'We do the identification with all the means that we have,' said a military dentist, identified as Captain Maayan. 'We see them in severe stages of abuse. We see gunshots and we see signs that are purely torture.'"
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Israeli forensic teams describe signs of torture, abuse) [
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