Knesset caucus hears testimony on Hamas’s brutal sexual violence

January 24, 2024 by  
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“There will be some difficult things to digest here, so take a deep breath.” Read more

‘Nothing prepares you for it’: The volunteers collecting human remains from Hamas massacre

January 1, 2024 by  
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WARNING! DISTRESSING CONTENT:  “We’d walk into a room full of blood and see no sign of shooting or bombing. There, Hamas terrorists didn’t use a gun to kill their victims; they used an axe to chop them into pieces,” said Simcha Greiniman, volunteer emergency responder with the ZAKA organisation. Read more

Beyond the horror: An Israeli volunteer’s tale of identifying massacre victims

October 12, 2023 by  
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Motty Bukchin has been identifying bodies from gruesome terror attacks for a quarter-century, but nothing prepared him for the scenes he encountered in devastated Gaza-area communities this week. Read more

Haredi: It’s OK to use the phone on Shabbat

April 5, 2020 by  
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ZAKA Search and Rescue volunteers visited the homes of over 60 confirmed coronavirus cases among haredi communities in Israel during this Shabbat in order to ensure they immediately self-isolate. Read more

Israeli aid delegation to Brazil locates and recovers bodies in the dam collapse disaster

January 30, 2019 by  
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Within hours of arriving at the site of the dam collapse disaster in Brazil, the Israeli aid delegation began to successfully locate and recover several bodies from the thick sludge. Read more

Israeli rescue unit has plans to operate in Australia

March 19, 2013 by  
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Australian Ambassador to Israel Ms. Andrea Faulkner recently visited the Jerusalem headquarters of the ZAKA International Rescue Unit which has plans to expand to Australia. Read more