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Forensic pathologists, including Israeli staffers as well as volunteers from abroad, were visibly disturbed by the evidence before them. Despite every effort to remain objective and detachedas called for by the professionmany broke down into tears throughout the day.
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 the victims hands were bound behind their backs with metal wire before being burned alive.
Perhaps the most disturbing image in the slideshow was a completely charred mass of flesh, which at first glance could not be seen as ever having belonged to a human. It was only after a CT scan was done that experts could see the inhumanity of the image.
Two spinal cordsone belonging to an adult, one to someone younga parent and child bound together by metal wires in a final embrace before being set alight.
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https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-769339
Lovie777
(23,722 posts)Hamas lies like the rest of them
SickOfTheOnePct
(8,710 posts)Yet there are still plenty of people that hang on every word they say, believing whatever comes out of their mouths.
Beastly Boy
(13,283 posts)Tasteless, but to the point:
"Your Honor, I didn't kill that man! He walked into my knife... twenty times... backwards..."
Justice
(7,269 posts)EllieBC
(3,639 posts)from their constituents.
sheshe2
(98,439 posts)According to Bublil, This was not combat, or a military conflict, or a state conflict, or a political conflict. [Hamas] enjoyed the murders so much that they did everything they could do to celebrate the killing. They celebrated burning houses with civilians inside who didnt do anything to them. They enjoyed grabbing an 18-year-old girl from a party, a festival, dragging her to a car, and taking her to Gaza. And who knows what happened [to her] in between. They enjoyed and celebrated the death. These are monsters. Theyre not human They werent merciful to anyone. No one who was alive and encountered them remained alive. No one.
Beastly Boy
(13,283 posts)But this needs to be told.
sheshe2
(98,439 posts)The lengthy task of these forensic specialists attempting to identify these people, is horrific. The DNA is mixed and will make the process long and leave the families without closure. These specialists will live with the horror for a lifetime. I just can't imagine the inhuman nature of the people that did this.
ShazzieB
(22,876 posts)We all (humanity as a whole) owe them a huge debt of gratitude for doing the work that they do. Any time there is a situation where people are killed en masse, particularly by the inhumanity of other supposed humans, the forensic anthropologists are there, doing their best to identify remains, determine causes of death, and, all too often, bear witness to atrocities.
I don't think those who do this work get the appreciation they deserve; in fact, there may be no amount of appreciation significant enough to adequately thank them for the services they perform as they investigate instances of war crimes, genocides, racial conflicts, and violent cruelties, seeing things that few of us can even imagine.
sheshe2
(98,439 posts)They bring to light the monstrosity of these acts and closure to the families left behind. Yet they do it at a cost.
Maru Kitteh
(32,010 posts)at the end. The price they pay is almost unspeakable.
Cha
(320,554 posts)pathologist doing their jobs.. I'm brought to tears reading what's been revealed that the Butchers of Hamas DID on October 7, 2023.
BlueCheeseAgain
(1,983 posts)And people are fawning over the released hostage and saying how nicely she was treated.
mercuryblues
(16,515 posts)They are publicly saying that until all hostages are released.
Maru Kitteh
(32,010 posts)electric_blue68
(27,296 posts)Horrifying, hideous actions. Those poor people!
electric_blue68
(27,296 posts)
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