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Beastly Boy

(13,283 posts)
Tue Oct 24, 2023, 02:59 PM Oct 2023

Hamas torture confirmed as Israeli forensics institute identifies victims

In light of the growing international interest in (and denials of) the Palestinian terror group Hamas’ October 7 massacre in southern Israel, representatives of the global press were invited to see the horrors for themselves.

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 detached—as called for by the profession—many 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 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.


More:
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-769339

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Lovie777

(23,722 posts)
1. Hamas claimed they did not "intentionally" hurt anyone......................
Tue Oct 24, 2023, 03:15 PM
Oct 2023


Hamas lies like the rest of them

SickOfTheOnePct

(8,710 posts)
2. Yep
Tue Oct 24, 2023, 03:24 PM
Oct 2023

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)
3. That reminds me of an old Benny Hill joke
Tue Oct 24, 2023, 03:49 PM
Oct 2023

Tasteless, but to the point:

"Your Honor, I didn't kill that man! He walked into my knife... twenty times... backwards..."

sheshe2

(98,439 posts)
5. That was a brutal article to read through.
Tue Oct 24, 2023, 04:32 PM
Oct 2023
Speaking personally, Bublil said that she wants the world to know that “generally, Hamas enjoyed the killing.”

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 didn’t 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. They’re not human… They weren’t merciful to anyone. No one who was alive and encountered them remained alive. No one.”

sheshe2

(98,439 posts)
10. You are right, it does.
Tue Oct 24, 2023, 05:53 PM
Oct 2023

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)
12. Bless those forensic anthropologists for being willing to do this difficult, stomach churning work.
Tue Oct 24, 2023, 08:14 PM
Oct 2023

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)
13. I just don't know how they do it.
Tue Oct 24, 2023, 08:34 PM
Oct 2023

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)
14. Shaz I took care of a vet that did this kind of work in Vietnam. He was absolutely haunted
Tue Oct 24, 2023, 08:53 PM
Oct 2023

at the end. The price they pay is almost unspeakable.

Cha

(320,554 posts)
8. Oh no.. I can't even imagine being a forensic
Tue Oct 24, 2023, 05:08 PM
Oct 2023

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)
9. Those are some sentences that I wish I had never read.
Tue Oct 24, 2023, 05:26 PM
Oct 2023

And people are fawning over the released hostage and saying how nicely she was treated.

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