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Knesset caucus hears testimony on Hamas’s brutal sexual violence

Sveta Listratov — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 03:42:02 +0000

“There will be some difficult things to digest here, so take a deep breath.” The Knesset Caucus for Female Victims of Sexual and Gender Violence in the Swords of Iron War opened Tuesday’s meeting with a trigger warning, accompanied by continuous weeping among the participants. “I myself don’t want to believe what happened,” said Haim […]

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

Amelie Botbol — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 05:01:39 +0000

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. Since Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre of […]

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

Sveta Listratov — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 00:24:11 +0000

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. “In Kfar Aza, it was a very difficult experience. Entire families were slaughtered in cold blood there. Some of them were burned, probably alive because the murderers […]

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

J-Wire Newsdesk — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 22:23:58 +0000

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.

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

Lydia Weitzman — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 23:56:54 +0000

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.

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Israeli rescue unit has plans to operate in Australia

J-Wire Staff — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 06:07:58 +0000

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.

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