Published October 13, 2023
As the world sets its sights on the unprecedented surprise Hamas attack against Israel, emerging details of just how gruesome their tactics were have left many in the international community in complete shock over the “unimaginable horror” perpetrated against hundreds of innocent civilians, each with their own harrowing ordeal.
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On Saturday, Hamas’ multiple-pronged attack saw the Gaza-based terror group resorting to abuse, executions, and kidnappings of men, women, children and, at times, full families and even an elderly Holocaust survivor. None were spared.
In southern towns, the terrorists went door-to-door shooting Jews and burning homes with families within, proceeding to murder soldiers and infants alike, all while thousands of rockets rained down on Israeli civilian centers.
While the exact number of individuals abducted remains unclear, Hamas terrorists have claimed more than 100, and one senior Israeli military official shared a preliminary assessment that at least 150 Israelis were taken hostage by the Palestinian terrorists.
Of the hostages, several are reported to be American, with the White House confirming that over 20 Americans are still unaccounted for in Israel.
Hamas has since threatened to execute captives on live television.
Countless accounts from the attacks, which have been described as reminiscent of the Nazi era, have revealed the hideous atrocities that victims faced.
Chicago native Natalie Raanan, 18, is one of the U.S. citizens taken to Gaza and being held hostage by Hamas. She and her mother were both kidnapped while visiting family.
She is one of 20 missing Americans, with 22 others reportedly killed.
“I’m just devastated by it. It’s just very sad,” said Kurt Jung, a neighbor of her mother. “I think it’s sadder knowing they might be held captive.”
Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein of Evanston expressed his fears that the two may undergo torture or be killed.
“Her eyes always glowed,” he said about the mother, whom he has known for 15 years.
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SOURCE: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/10/12/none-were-spared-women-children-elderly-peace-activists-holocaust-survivor-victims-of-hamas-attacks-faced-evil-not-created-even-by-the-devil/
RELATED: Awaiting ID, the bodies of Hamas’s victims are stacked on racks in outdoor containers
Most of the Israeli civilian bodies transferred to the Military Rabbinate for processing await ID, complicated by condition of the remains and availability of fingerprint records
A Zaka volunteer stands in front of containers, serving as a temporary mortuary for victims of Hamas’s October 7 attack, at the Military Rabbinate’s headquarters in Ramle, October 13, 2023. (GPO)
Published October 13, 2023
RAMLE — Bodies are hauled in via refrigerated trucks, shrouded in thin white sheets or sealed in plastic bags, and unloaded in a quiet corner of the Military Rabbinate’s main base.
Overwhelming the permanent mortuary facilities, they are racked and loaded into a series of refrigerated containers, so they can be stored for processing and burial.
These are the unidentified bodies among the 1,300 Israelis, the vast majority of whom civilians, who were killed by Hamas during a devastating Saturday terror attack.
“We take the bodies of the murdered from the war,” explained A., a military officer responsible for overseeing the identification and processing operation. “Not everyone comes with identification, so we identify them with DNA, fingerprints, teeth records,” he said.
When asked if the facility processes the deceased through in-person family identifications, A. said a resolute “no.”
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SOURCE: https://www.timesofisrael.com/awaiting-id-the-bodies-of-hamass-victims-are-stacked-on-racks-in-outdoor-containers/
RELATED: Let Us Be Clear, the Kidnapping of Civilians from Israel By Hamas is a War Crime
We believe there are enough people in the world who oppose the enforced disappearance of people regardless of the national origin of the victims. They need to speak up now, write two Israeli human rights activists.
Published October 12, 2023
In recent years, together with many of our friends in Israel, we have repeatedly condemned the crimes that the State of Israel has committed against the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. We have worked to protect Palestinians’ rights. We have called for the imposition of sanctions on Israel, and also for international intervention.
But it was not only the support for the rights of the Palestinian people that created the connection between the two of us. In recent years, we have worked together to try to reveal all the documents in Israel from its security and diplomatic relationship with the Pinochet regime in Chile, including any information that exists in Israel regarding Daniel’s father, David Silberman, who was kidnapped and disappeared by the Pinochet regime’s intelligence agency (DINA), which at the time was in good relationship with its Israeli counterpart (the Mossad). After 49 years, the fate of David is still unknown. The legal proceedings in Israel that were conducted together with another family of a disappeared Chilean, were all rejected in the Israeli courts.
Last weekend, the citizens of the State of Israel were under a murderous and barbaric attack, with Hamas using the same tactics as ISIS. Hamas fighters raided an outdoor party attended by crowds of young Jews, took control of Jewish kibbutzim and towns and then went from house to house and slaughtered entire families at gunpoint.
During the Hamas attack, it kidnapped an unknown number of elderly people, men, women, children and infants. Among the abductees there are Jews as well as non-Jews, some with non-Israeli citizenship. The photos and videos that have already been published on social media and in international media of kidnapped mothers with children, elderly women, and the body of a naked woman are shocking and devastating. As with ISIS, Hamas fighters displayed the kidnapped women and drove around with them in the cities of the Gaza Strip.
Hamas is hiding the identity of most of the abductees, their location, their medical condition and their fate. The abductees are defined according to international law as victims of enforced disappearance. That is as defined in the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (2006) and in the United Nations Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (A/RES/47/133).
Beyond the fact that there is a real and imminent danger that the abductees will be tortured, raped and murdered, and notwithstanding talk of a Qatar-mediated deal to swap hostages for Palestinians in Israeli jails, there is also a real fear that Hamas will hand over the Israeli abductees to other Palestinian militant organisations. Hamas has already announced that 30 of them have been handed to the Islamic Jihad.
